New Approaches to Old Stones
New Approaches to Old Stones

Author: Yorke M. Rowan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1134949715

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Ground stone artefacts were widely used in food production in prehistory. However, the archaeological community has widely neglected the dataset of ground stone artefacts until now. 'New Approaches to Old Stones' offers a theoretical and methodological analysis of the archaeological data pertaining to ground stone tools. The essays draw on a range of case studies - from the Levant, Egypt, Crete, Anatolia, Mexico and North America - to examine ground stone technologies. From medieval Islamic stone cooking vessels and late Minoan stone vases, to the use of stone in ritual and as a symbol of luxury, 'New Approaches to Old Stones' offers a radical reassessment of the impact of ground-stone artefacts on technological change, production and exchange.

Quaternary of the Levant
Quaternary of the Levant

Author: Yehouda Enzel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 789

ISBN-13: 1107090466

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Over eighty contributions from leading researchers review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution in the Levant.

Natufian Foragers in the Levant
Natufian Foragers in the Levant

Author: Ofer Bar-Yosef

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 1789201578

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This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.

Excavations at Sissi III
Excavations at Sissi III

Author: Jan Driessen

Publisher: Presses univ. de Louvain

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 2875581066

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Vol. 2: Since 2007, the Belgian School at Athens has undertaken excavations on the Kefali or Buffo hill, east of the village of Sissi, on the north coast of Crete where a Minoan site was occupied approximately between 2500 and 1200 BC. This volume is the follow-up of an earlier one on the 2007-2008 excavations (published as 'Aegis 1') and presents a preliminary report on the excavations carried out in 2009 and 2010. It concentrates on the different zones examined within the cemetery and settlement. There are also reports on the Late Minoan pottery, site conservation and environmental analysis as well as a paper on the use of GIS at Sissi

Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research
Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research

Author: Patrick Nørskov Pedersen

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2022-01-06

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1789694795

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The papers in this volume focus especially on the relationship between ground stone artefacts and foodways and include archaeological and ethnographic case studies ranging from the Palaeolithic to the current era, and geographically from Africa to Europe and Asia.

Wadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in Jordan
Wadi Hammeh 27, an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in Jordan

Author: Phillip C. Edwards

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-11-23

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 9004236090

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Wadi Hammeh 27: an Early Natufian Settlement at Pella in Jordan is an integrated analysis of subsistence strategies, settlement patterns and ritual life in a 14,000-year-old hunter-gatherer settlement located in the east Jordan Valley.

Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult
Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult

Author: Thomas Evan Levy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-17

Total Pages: 1380

ISBN-13: 1134946562

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The Chalcolithic period was formative in Near Eastern prehistory, being a time of fundamental social change in craft specialization, horticulture and temple life. Gilat - a low mound, semi-communal farming settlement in the Negev desert - is one of the few Chalcolithic sanctuary sites in the Southern Levant. 'Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult' presents a critical analysis of the archaeological data from Gilat. The book brings together archaeological finds and anthropological theory to examine the role of religion in the evolution of society and the power of ritual in promoting change. This comprehensive volume, which includes artefact drawings, photographs, maps and data tables, will be of interest to students and scholars of ancient history, anthropology, archaeology, as well as biblical and religious studies.

Last House on the Hill
Last House on the Hill

Author: Mirjana Stevanovic

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Published: 2012-12-31

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 1938770226

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Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Occupied from around 7500 BC to 5700 BC, the large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk in Anatolia is composed entirely of domestic buildings; no public buildings have been identified. First excavated in the early 1960s, the site was left untouched until 1993. During the summers of 1997-2003 a team from the University of California at Berkeley (the BACH team) excavated an area at the northern end of the East Mound of Catalhoyuk. The houses there date predominantly to the late Aceramic and early Ceramic Neolithic, around 7000 BC. Last House on the Hill is the final report of the BACH excavations. This volume comprises both interpretive chapters and empirical data from the excavations and their materials. The research of the BACH team focuses on the lives and life histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in documenting and sharing the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities.

The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent

Author: Roger Matthews

Publisher: Central Zagros Archaeological

Published: 2020-07-31

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 1789255260

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Analysis of the transition to sedentary farming in the Fertile Crescent and the establishment of Neolithic culture based on major excavations in Iraq.

Broadening Horizons
Broadening Horizons

Author: Borrell Tena, Ferran

Publisher: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 8449027438

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Broadening Horizons is a series of international congresses dedicated to researchers, including postgraduate students, in the early-stages of their careers who are involved in a number of different disciplinary areas in the study of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. The general aim of the conferences is to encourage discussion of new topics and to promote the exchange of ideas, data and scientific information among students and scholars of many different specialties – archaeology, prehistory, history, anthropology, archaeobiology and philology – throughout the geographical area known as the Ancient Near East. The 3rd of these congresses was held in Barcelona (Spain), from the 19th to the 21st of July 2010 in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, following previous congresses which had taken place at Ghent University (Belgium) in 2006 and at Université Lyon 2 (France) in 2007. This volume includes not only the very interesting and diverse set of papers presented in Barcelona but also the invited contributions of the key speakers. These two sections are followed by a final paper by the editors about the trajectory of the BH conferences and about the particularities and difficulties confronting young scholars who are doing research in the Near East.