Stone tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt : ground stone tools, rock-cut installations and stone vessels from the Prehistory to Late Antiquity /

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Other Authors: Squitieri, Andrea (Editor), Eitam, David, 1948- (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2019].

Series: Archaeopress ancient Near Eastern archaeology ; 4.

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Call Number: DT61 .S886 2019

Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • by David Eitam and Andrea Squitieri
  • Methodology and Classification
  • The archaeology of discard and abandonment: presence and absence in the ground stone assemblage from Early Neolithic Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan
  • by David Mudd
  • Survey of Rock-Cut Installations at Tel Bareqet (Israel): Food Processor devices in Epipaleolithic, PPNA and the Early Bronze
  • by David Eitam
  • Ayn Asil and Elephantine (Egypt): remarks on classification and function of ground stone implements
  • by Clara Jeuthe
  • Documentation: Non-Archaeological and Archaeological Sources in Comparison
  • Mill-songs. The soundscape of collective grinding in the Bronze and Iron Age Near East and eastern Mediterranean
  • by Luca Bombardieri
  • Rotary Querns and the Presentation of the Past
  • by Jennie Ebeling
  • Bourgul in Talmudic and Classical Literature, and Today
  • by Rafael Frankel
  • Wine and oil presses in the Roman to Late Antique Near East and Mediterranean: Balancing textual and archaeological evidence
  • by Tamara Lewit and Paul Burton
  • Raw Material and Manufacture
  • Tool marks on Old Kingdom limestone vessels from Abusir
  • production of canopic jars and model vessels
  • by Lucie Jiraskova
  • Raw material variety and acquisition of the EB III ground stone assemblage of Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel)
  • by Jeremy A. Beller, Haskel J. Greenfield, Mostafa Fayek, Itzhaq Shai, and Aren M. Maeir
  • Function and Uses
  • The ground stone assemblage from the Early Bronze Age I site Wadi Fidan•4: Gender aspects
  • by Yael Abadi-Reiss, Mohammad Najjar and Thomas E. Levy
  • Cereal processing in stone agri-technological system at late Natufian Huzuq Musa in the Jordan Valley
  • by David Eitam
  • Cuboid-Spheroid Stone Object
  • an Archaic Scale Weight
  • Public Weighting-Systems in Iron Age Israel
  • by David Eitam
  • Groundstone Tools from Site•35
  • an Early Iron Age Copper Smelting Site in the Timna Valley (Israel)
  • by Aaron Greener and Erez Ben-Yosef
  • The Iron Age stone tool assemblage of Gird-i Bazar, in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq
  • by Andrea Squitieri
  • Sites and Tools
  • Macrolithics and the on-going use of stone tools in Qantir-Piramesse and Tell el-Dab'a-Avaris, Eastern Delta/Egypt
  • by Silvia Prell
  • Millstones, Mortars, and Stone Bowls from Tel Dover and the Southern Levant
  • by Refael Frankel
  • Stone Tools of the Iron Age Ein Gev and their Implication. The Japanese Excavation Project
  • by David Eitam
  • Selenite (gypsum) from the North Sinai collection: likely function and technology of production
  • by Joan S. Schneider, David Valentine, Avraham Gabay, and Eliezer D. Oren
  • The stone tools and vessels from Tel Miqne-Ekron: a report on the Bronze and Iron Ages
  • by Ianir Milevski
  • El-Khirba: Food processing and other ground stone tools from a Roman, Abbasid and Mamluk period site near Nes Ziyyona, Israel
  • by Erez Adama, Uzi ̀Ad and Danny Rosenberg.•(source: Nielsen Book Data)
  • Summary.