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The chalcolithic culture of the Golan / Claire Epstein ; with a contribution by Tamar Noy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Claire, author.
- Series:
- IAA reports ; Number 4.
- IAA reports ; Number 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Copper age--Golan Heights.
- Copper age.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Golan Heights.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Antiquities.
- Copper age--Israel.
- Golan Heights--Antiquities.
- Golan Heights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jerusalem : Israel Antiquities Authority, [1998]
- Summary:
- The Chalcolithic Culture of the Golan.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Color Page 1
- Color Page 2
- Part 1: Introduction
- Preface
- Environmental Setting
- Types of Settlement
- The House Plan
- The Roof
- Household Amenities
- Population Estimates
- Part 2: The Excavated Sites
- Site 12: Rasm Harbush
- Site 20: 'Ein el- Hariri
- Site 22: Rasm el-Kabash
- Site 16, 21: Near the Daliyyot Waterfall
- Site 18: 'Sito Site' Near 'Ein el-Faras
- Site 14: North-West of Qaliq
- Site 6: el-Majami'
- Site 8: Near th Ja'adan Stream
- Site 19: el-Arba'in
- Part 3: Surveyed Sites
- Introduction
- ed Dura (Site 1)
- South-East of Fakhura (Site 2)
- Tell Fanus (Site 3)
- Near the Upper Zavitan Waterfall (Site 4)
- Siyar el-Kherfan (Site 5)
- Tell Sluqiyye (Site 7)
- Mush'an (Site 9)
- South of the lower Nukheile Waterfall (Site 10)
- Shabbe (Site 11)
- El-Havi (Yonathan) (Site 13)
- Dab'es (Dvash) Reservoir (Site 15)
- Stone-Heap No. 4 (Site 17)
- Water-Tower Site (Site 23)
- Near the Bazelet Waterfall (Site 24)
- Khirbet el-Hutiyye (Site 25)
- Afterword
- Part 4: Pottery Artifacts
- Techniques of Pottery-Making
- Decorative Elements
- Pithoi
- Spouted Kraters Spout
- Bowls
- Small Kraters
- Hole mouth Jars
- Jugs and juglets
- Spindel Whorls
- Fenestrated Footed Bowls
- Horn Handles and Applied Horned Head
- Handles
- 'Eye and Nose' Handles
- Small Handles
- Miscellaneous Pottery
- Plates I-XXIX
- Part 5: Basalt Artifacts
- Working Basalt
- Pillar Figures
- Flower-Pot Shaped Bowl
- Rounded Bowls
- Squarish Bowls
- Footed Bowls
- Solid (Unfinished) Bowls
- Unworked Stones With Bowl-Like Cavity Above
- Querns
- Grinding Stones and Pestels
- Hoes and Agricultural Tools
- Grooved Hammers
- Dibble Stick Weights
- Stones Hollowed out on Both Upper and Lower Surface
- Miscellaneous Artifacts.
- Trough-Like Basins
- Plate XXX-XLIV
- Part 6: The Flint Artifacts
- Raw Materials
- Debitage
- Scrapers
- Fan Scrapers
- Perforated Tools
- Bifacial Tools
- Sickle Blades and Knifes
- Awls and Borers
- Retouched Blades, Bladelets and Flakes
- Notches, Denticulates, Truncations and Miscellaneous Retoched Small Tools
- Miscellaneous Trimmed Items
- Hammerstones
- Choppers
- Summary
- Plate XLV-LXXIV
- In Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Analysis of Charred Wood Samples and Seeds fromChalcolithic Sites in the Golan
- Appendix 2: Faunal Remains from Golan Chalcolithic Sites
- Appendix 3: 14C Dates from Chalcolithic Sites in the Golan
- Appendix 4: Pottery Analyses from Site 12
- References
- Site Plans 1a and 1b
- Site Plan 2
- Site Plan 3
- Site Plan 4
- Site Plan 5
- Site Plan 6-8
- Site Plans 9a and 9b.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 965-406-545-2
- OCLC:
- 1126213578
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