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Basalt bifacial tool production in the southern Levant: a glance at the quarry and workshop site of Giv'at Kipod, Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Danny Rosenberg ,
Ron Shimelmitz  and
Assaf Nativ
Danny Rosenberg
Affiliation:
Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel (Email: aromat@netvision.net.il)
Ron Shimelmitz
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Assaf Nativ
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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The authors describe the discovery of a Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic basalt axe factory in the Manasseh Hills in Israel and suggest it had a primary role in the region for the production of these functional and symbolic tools. The form of discarded roughouts and flakes is used to deduce the principal eventual product and its sequence of manufacture.

Keywords

Late NeolithicChalcolithicPPNAbifacial toolsaxesymbolic
Type
Research article
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Antiquity , Volume 82 , Issue 316 , June 2008 , pp. 367 - 376
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2008

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