New Approaches to Old Stones

New Approaches to Old Stones
Author: Yorke M. Rowan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134949715

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.

Natufian Foragers in the Levant

Natufian Foragers in the Levant
Author: Ofer Bar-Yosef
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789201578

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.

Quaternary of the Levant

Quaternary of the Levant
Author: Yehouda Enzel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 789
Release: 2017-04-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107090466

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

Excavations at Sissi III

Excavations at Sissi III
Author: Jan Driessen
Publisher: Presses univ. de Louvain
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 2875581066

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

Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult

Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult
Author: Thomas Evan Levy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1380
Release: 2016-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134946562

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.

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
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2022-01-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789694795

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
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2012-11-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004236090

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.

Last House on the Hill

Last House on the Hill
Author: Mirjana Stevanovic
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2012-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1938770226

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
Total Pages: 721
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789255260

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