Chert availability and prehistoric exploitation in the Near East / edited by Christophe Delage.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delage, Christophe

Series:

BAR international series ; 1615.

BAR international series ; 1615

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chert--Middle East.

Chert.

Neolithic period--Middle East.

Neolithic period.

Archaeological geology--Middle East.

Archaeological geology.

Quarries and quarrying--Middle East.

Quarries and quarrying.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 344 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Place of Publication:

Oxford : John and Erica Hedges, 2007.

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Contents:

Chert availability and prehistoric exploitation in the Near East : an introduction / Christophe Delage

Distribution and petrographic characteristics of cherts in Syria / Darrell F.G. Long and Patrick J. Julig

Chert identification and characteristics in Northern Israel / Christophe Delage

Purple-pink flint sources in Jordan / Gary O. Rollefson, Leslie Quintero, and Philip Wilke

Distribution of flint in Turkey, from 10,000 to 6,000 cal BC. Case study

Çatalhöyük / Ana Bezić

Patterns of flint exploitation and use at Neolithic settlements of Syria / Yoshihiro Nishiaki

Fluviatile terraces as "flint mines" in the Levant / Lorraine Copeland

Use of raw material at Yabrud Rockshelter I / Rose L. Solecki and Ralph S. Solecki

Sourcing of archaeological flints from the middle to upper Palaeolithic transition, Jerf al-Ajla Cave, Syria / Patrick J. Julig [and others]

The availability and exploitation of raw materials in the lower Paleolithic of Lebanon / Corine Yazbeck

Raw material use in west-central Jordan / Deborah I. Olszewski and U. Schurmans

Lithic raw material availability and use at the epipaleolithic site of Tor al-Tareeq in west-central Jordan / Michael P. Neeley

Prehistoric exploitation of Eocene flint in the al-Jafr Basin in southeastern Jordan / Philip Wilke, Leslie Quintero, and Gary A. Rollefson

Lithic raw material procurement in the Acheulean of Gesher Benot Yaʹaqov, Israel / Christophe Delage

Three periods, three patterns of chert exploitation in the Neolithic of Munhata (Central Jordan Valley, Israel) / Christophe Delage

Prehistoric chert use in Cyprus / Carole McCartney

Athkiakades ancient and modern: evidence of craftsmen and chert use from the Canadian Palaipaphos and Idalion Survey Projects in Cyprus / Sally Stewart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2024.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781407330822

1407330829

OCLC:

1477687661

Publisher Number:

S1615 BAR Publishing

Access Restriction:

Use copy Restrictions unspecified