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

Danny Rosenberg; Ron Shimelmitz; Assaf Nativ

doi:10.1017/S0003598X00096861

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

Danny Rosenberg, Ron Shimelmitz, Assaf Nativ

Department of Archaeology

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	367-376
Number of pages	10
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	82
Issue number	316
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00096861
State	Published - Jun 2008

Keywords

Axe
Bifacial tools
Chalcolithic
Late Neolithic
PPNA
Symbolic

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Archaeology
General Arts and Humanities

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