ISBN:
9789464260823
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (604 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
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DDC:
939.4
Keywords:
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Abstract:
This book combines the latest studies of Near Eastern Neolithic lithics by leading international archaeologists to develop their analytical potential and advance our understanding of the world oldest farming societies of the Near East in human history. This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East, hosted at the University of Tokyo, Japan, from November 12 to 16, 2019 (PPN9-Tokyo). A unique point of the volume, while referring to the origins and development as in the proceedings of the previous conferences, is a greater emphasis on regional perspectives to evaluate the Near Eastern Neolithic. The current research indicates that the earliest farming societies of the Near East developed in interaction with neighbouring hunter-gatherer societies, that either coexisted with them for long periods or soon assimilated to the Near Eastern farmers. Understanding these contrasting processes would shed new light on identifying the Neolithisation practices of the "core" regions in the Near East itself. A similar attempt was made at the PPN2-Warsaw in 1995, but the present volume provides the most up-to-date discoveries and perspectives after a quarter century. The 39 papers in this volume include contributions on the Iranian Zagros, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, a region whose Neolithic archaeological records are far less well understood but that we believe will enrich our understanding of the first farming societies of the Near East.
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- PART 1 NEW DISCOVERIES IN THE LEVANT THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF DISTINCTIVE LITHIC OBJECTS -- Drilling Tools at the End of the Natufian -- Suggesting a Technological Innovation -- Talia Yashuv and Leore Grosman -- Arrows and Archery during the PPNB -- An Experimental Approach: Points Production and Use -- Frédéric Abbès and Fiona Pichon -- Weapons or Hunting Tools? -- Evaluating the Role of Big Arrowheads of the Neolithic Levant -- Omry Barzilai and Hila May -- 3D Morpho-Metric Analysis of PPNB Arrowheads from MOTZA -- Preliminary Results -- Hamoudi Khalaily, Kobi Vardi, Avshalom Karasik and Omry Barzilai -- Production and Use of Nahal Hemar Knives in the Southern Levant during the PPNB -- New Evidence from Kharaysin (Jordan) -- Ferran Borrell, Juan José Ibáñez, Juan Muñiz, Ignacio Clemente Conte and Luis Teira -- The Baʻja Daggers -- Type, Technology and Commodification of a LPPNB Burial Object -- Hans Georg K. Gebel, Christoph Purschwitz, Denis Štefanisko and Marion Benz -- Recycling of PPNB Artefacts in the Yarmukian Site of Tel Izhaki, Jezreel Valley, Israel -- Some Chronological and Regional Implications -- Alla Yaroshevich, Edwin C.M. van den Brink, Rivka Chasan, Danny Rosenberg, Abbi Bieler, Lee Perry-Gal, Elisabetta Boaretto and Noam Greenbaum -- Innovation, Adaptation or Just a Development? -- Alternative Uses of Obsidian the Early Neolithic of the Near East -- Elizabeth Healey and Stuart Campbell -- Typology, Material and Cultural Role of Stone Bracelets (Bangles) from the Neolithic Megasite of Motza -- Preliminary Report -- Ianir Milevski, Jacob Vardi and Hamoudi Khalaily -- Flaking or Grinding? -- Habits of Stone Tool Production in Prehistoric Cyprus -- Andrew McCarthy -- The Processing of Construction Stones at the Neolithic Site of Mishmar Ha'emeq, Israel -- Gil Haklaya*, Nimrod Getzova and Omry Barzilaia.
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