Title:
Stone tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt : ground stone tools, rock-cut installations and stone vessels from the Prehistory to Late Antiquity / edited by Andrea Squitieri and David Eitam.
Author:
Squitieri, Andrea, editor.
Eitam, David, 1948- editor.
Publication Information:
Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2019]
©2019
Call Number:
DT61 .S76 2019
Abstract:
Stone Tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: Ground stone tools, rock-cut installations and stone vessels from Prehistory to Late Antiquity' is about groundstone tools, stone vessels, and devices carved into rock throughout the Near East and Egypt from Prehistory to the late periods. These categories of objects have too often been overlooked by archaeologists, despite their frequent occurrence in the archaeological record. Most importantly, a careful study of these tools reveals crucial insights into ancient societies. From the procuring of raw materials to patterns of use and discard, they provide us with a wealth of information about the activities they were involved in and how these activities were organised. These tools reveal patterns in the trade of both raw materials and finished products, inform us about economic aspects of food production and consumption, cast light on industrial activities, help establish intercultural connections, and offer hints about the relationship between sites and their environment. The aim of this book is to explore all aspects of these ubiquitous tools and to stimulate debate about the new methodologies needed to approach this material.
ISBN:
9781789690606
Series:
Archaeopress Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology ; 4
Archaeopress Archaeology
Archaeopress ancient Near Eastern archaeology ; 4.
Archaeopress archaeology.
Physical Description:
ix, 360 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, charts, plans ; 29 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- by David Eitam and Andrea Squitieri -- Methodology and Classification -- The archaeology of discard and abandonment: presence and absence in the ground stone assemblage from Early Neolithic Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan -- by David Mudd -- Survey of Rock-Cut Installations at Tel Bareqet (Israel): Food Processor devices in Epipaleolithic, PPNA and the Early Bronze -- by David Eitam -- Ayn Asil and Elephantine (Egypt): remarks on classification and function of ground stone implements -- by Clara Jeuthe -- Documentation: Non-Archaeological and Archaeological Sources in Comparison -- Mill-songs. The soundscape of collective grinding in the Bronze and Iron Age Near East and eastern Mediterranean -- by Luca Bombardieri -- Rotary Querns and the Presentation of the Past -- by Jennie Ebeling -- Bourgul in Talmudic and Classical Literature, and Today -- by Rafael Frankel -- Wine and oil presses in the Roman to Late Antique Near East and Mediterranean: Balancing textual and archaeological evidence -- by Tamara Lewit and Paul Burton -- Raw Material and Manufacture -- Tool marks on Old Kingdom limestone vessels from Abusir -- production of canopic jars and model vessels -- by Lucie Jiraskova -- Raw material variety and acquisition of the EB III ground stone assemblage of Tell es-Safi/Gath (Israel) -- by Jeremy A. Beller, Haskel J. Greenfield, Mostafa Fayek, Itzhaq Shai, and Aren M. Maeir -- Function and Uses -- The ground stone assemblage from the Early Bronze Age I site Wadi Fidan•4: Gender aspects -- by Yael Abadi-Reiss, Mohammad Najjar and Thomas E. Levy -- Cereal processing in stone agri-technological system at late Natufian Huzuq Musa in the Jordan Valley -- by David Eitam -- Cuboid-Spheroid Stone Object -- an Archaic Scale Weight -- Public Weighting-Systems in Iron Age Israel -- by David Eitam -- Groundstone Tools from Site•35 -- an Early Iron Age Copper Smelting Site in the Timna Valley (Israel) -- by Aaron Greener and Erez Ben-Yosef -- The Iron Age stone tool assemblage of Gird-i Bazar, in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq -- by Andrea Squitieri -- Sites and Tools -- Macrolithics and the on-going use of stone tools in Qantir-Piramesse and Tell el-Dab'a-Avaris, Eastern Delta/Egypt -- by Silvia Prell -- Millstones, Mortars, and Stone Bowls from Tel Dover and the Southern Levant -- by Refael Frankel -- Stone Tools of the Iron Age Ein Gev and their Implication. The Japanese Excavation Project -- by David Eitam -- Selenite (gypsum) from the North Sinai collection: likely function and technology of production -- by Joan S. Schneider, David Valentine, Avraham Gabay, and Eliezer D. Oren -- The stone tools and vessels from Tel Miqne-Ekron: a report on the Bronze and Iron Ages -- by Ianir Milevski -- El-Khirba: Food processing and other ground stone tools from a Roman, Abbasid and Mamluk period site near Nes Ziyyona, Israel -- by Erez Adama, Uzi `Ad and Danny Rosenberg.•(source: Nielsen Book Data) -- Summary
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