ISBN:
9781000435801
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (255 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
939.4
Keywords:
Commerce, Prehistoric-Middle East
;
Exchange-Middle East-History-To 1500
;
Stone implements-Middle East
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Prologue: notes on the archaeology of exchange -- 2. The tabular scrapers: a background to a cross-cultural exchange system -- A first overview -- The geographical and cultural background to the tabular scraper trade -- The settled zone chronologies and general features -- The desert zones -- Tabular scrapers: basic chronology -- Note -- 3. The tabular scraper from tool type to chaîne opératoire -- Methodology and research agenda -- Problems in the definition of tabular scrapers -- Problems of incomplete data description -- Absence of contextual information -- A first description -- Raw materials -- Manufacturing methods -- Technique -- Typology -- The retouch -- Techno-economic strategies and socio-cultural behaviors -- 4. Use and function -- Physical utilization -- Social function -- Incisions -- Distribution -- Motifs -- Comparisons and interpretations -- 'Special' contexts -- Intentional breakage -- 5. The production system -- Production sites -- Production sites without intensive quarrying -- Production sites with intensive quarrying -- Production sites: chronological, social, and geographical trends -- Other structures of production of tabular scrapers: curated and expedient production -- Secondary workshops -- Stockage -- Notes -- 6. The trade and exchange system -- Distribution and frequency -- Methodological notes -- The desert: the intra-regional exchange system and the external-trade system -- The contact zone: an inter-cultural exchange system in the interface between nomads and sedentary -- The settled zone: internal exchange and consumption zone -- Beyond the Southern Levant -- The Egyptian system -- The Northern Levant and the Northern Mesopotamia -- Notes -- 7. Tabular scraper value.
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