Tracking the Neolithic in the near East [electronic resource] : Lithic Perspectives on Its Origins, Development and Dispersals.

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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 -- Fr�ed�eric Abb�es 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 Jos�e Ib�a�nez, Juan Mu�niz, Ignacio Clemente Conte and Luis Teira -- The Ba�ja Daggers -- Type, Technology and Commodification of a LPPNB Burial Object -- Hans Georg K. Gebel, Christoph Purschwitz, Denis �Stefanisko 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 -- PART 2 LITHIC ASSEMBLAGES AND KNAPPING TECHNOLOGIES -- Refitting Lithics from Ais Giorkis, Cyprus -- A Preliminary Analysis of Bidirectional Blade Technology -- Carole McCartney† -- Preliminary Analysis of the Lithic Assemblages of Nahal Yarmuth 38 -- A New PPNB Site in Central Israel -- Dana Ackerfeld, Anna Eirikh-Rose, Hai Ashkenazi, Katia Zutovski and Avi Gopher -- Intra-Site Variability in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Site of Yiftahel

Tracing the Neolithic Occupation of 'En Esur (Israel) and the Question of the Archaeological Visibility of the Neolithic in the Archeological Record.

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.

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