Chert availability and prehistoric exploitation in the Near East
By: edited by Christophe Delage.
Contributors: Delage, Christophe.
Series: BAR international series -- 1615
Publisher: John and Erica Hedges, Ltd.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781407300573
Subjects: Chert implements -- Middle East.; Paleolithic period -- Middle East.; Quarries and quarrying -- Middle East.; Archaeological geology -- Middle East.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Chert availability and prehistoric exploitation in the Near East : an introduction / Christophe Delage; title: Distribution and petrographic characteristics of cherts in Syria / Darrell F.G. Long and Patrick J. Julig; title: Chert identification and characteristics in Northern Israel / Christophe Delage; title: Purple-pink flint sources in Jordan / Gary O. Rollefson, Leslie Quintero, and Philip Wilke; title: Distribution of flint in Turkey, from 10,000 to 6,000 cal BC. Case study - Çatalhöyük / Ana Bezić; title: Patterns of flint exploitation and use at Neolithic settlements of Syria / Yoshihiro Nishiaki; title: Fluviatile terraces as "flint mines" in the Levant / Lorraine Copeland; title: Use of raw material at Yabrud Rockshelter I / Rose L. Solecki and Ralph S. Solecki; title: Sourcing of archaeological flints from the middle to upper Palaeolithic transition, Jerf al-Ajla Cave, Syria / Patrick J. Julig ... [et al.]; title: The availability and exploitation of raw materials in the lower Paleolithic of Lebanon / Corine Yazbeck; title: Raw material use in west-central Jordan / Deborah I. Olszewski and U. Schurmans; title: Lithic raw material availability and use at the epipaleolithic site of Tor al-Tareeq in west-central Jordan / Michael P. Neeley; title: Prehistoric exploitation of Eocene flint in the al-Jafr; title: Basin in southeastern Jordan / Philip Wilke, Leslie Quintero, and Gary A. Rollefson; title: Lithic raw material procurement in the Acheulean of Gesher Benot Yaʹaqov, Israel / Christophe Delage; title: Three periods, three patterns of chert exploitation in the Neolithic of Munhata (Central Jordan Valley, Israel) / Christophe Delage; title: Prehistoric chert use in Cyprus / Carole McCartney; title: Athkiakades ancient and modern: evidence of craftsmen and chert use from the Canadian Palaipaphos and Idalion Survey Projects in Cyprus / Sally Stewart.