Stone tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt : ground stone tools, rock-cut installations and stone vessels from the prehistory to late antiquity /: ground stone tools, rock-cut installations and stone vessels from the prehistory to late antiquity. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrea Squitieri and David Eitam.
• Authors: Squitieri, Andrea
• Editors: Squitieri, Andrea; Eitam, David, 1948-
• 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 Jirásková; 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-Dabʿa-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.
• Publisher Details: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 360 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 932.01; Stone implements -- Middle East; Stone implements -- Egypt; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt; Stone age -- Middle East; Stone age -- Egypt
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789690613
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 27, 2019).
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