Refitting Bifacial Production Waste – The Case of the Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah Refuse Pit from Ein Zippori, Israel

Autor:	Lucy Wilson, Heeli C. Schechter, Aviad Agam, Avi Gopher, Katia Zutovski
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	010506 paleontology Archeology geography geography.geographical_feature_category 060102 archaeology 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Archaeology Anthropology Assemblage (archaeology) 0601 history and archaeology Pottery Geology Wadi 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Zdroj:	Lithic Technology. 43:228-244
ISSN:	2051-6185 0197-7261
DOI:	10.1080/01977261.2018.1514723
Popis:	espanolLithic refitting, bifacial industry, Ein Zippori, Israel, Neolithic, refuse pit EnglishA refitting project was performed on a lithic assemblage from the Late Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah refuse pit (Locus 8071) found at Ein Zippori, Israel. The assemblage includes mainly waste products from bifacial tool manufacture and maintenance processes. The refitted sequences reflect initial reduction stages as well as advanced re-sharpening and recycling activities. The reconstructed reduction processes include decortication by removal of large flakes, and further shaping by removal of different types of thinning-flakes, probably using a hard hammer. Additional processes reflected by refitting, include post-polish re-sharpening, which in some cases was presumably performed using a soft hammer. Finally, evidence of recycling of bifacial tools into cores is also apparent. The presence of refitted waste, attesting to a range of different reduction stages, performed in the same unknown workshop, perhaps by the same knapper, sheds light on the extent of involvement that the knapper/s had in the life-histories of bifacial tools
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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