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Five seasons of researches at the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of Nahal Karkom (Southern Negev, Israel) have highlighted a campsite consisting of a few, stonewalled curvilinear structures in a beehive arrangement. The site experienced three intermittent, seasonal occupations within a short time frame, probably starting from the first half of the VIII millennium B.C.E. It has yielded a range of typical Southern Levantine PPNB material culture: the lithic assemblage features the use of bidirectional core technology, with a preponderance of bladelets and small blades, tranchet axes, borers, tanged projectile points, ground stones. The location of the site and the nature of the findings are indicative of repeated (probably, winter-late spring) occupations of this Southern Negev marginal zone by a band carrying on a mobile foraging existence, or a logistic stop of a small group residentially based elsewhere. |
