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The stone-to-metal transition reflected in the Iron Age copper production sites of Timna Valley, Israel. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Metalwork was a major technological innovation that displaced stone-tool technologies and transformed human society and the environment. However, our understanding of these processes remains partial.
Ron Shimelmitz, Erez Ben-Yosef
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Event review: Chipped stone tools workshops 2014, Skopje, Macedonia
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2015 In February and March 2014, HAEMUS, the Center for Scientific Research and Promotion of Culture, organized public stone tools workshops. The workshops titled “The stories written in stone” were held at the Museum of the Old Bazaar in Skopje with the help
Vasilka Dimitrovska
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Kaizer Hill (Modi'in), a pre-pottery neolithic a quarry site - the terraced slopes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 The research of the Kaizer Hill site (the Hilltop and its Terraces), recognized as a Pre Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) quarry site, involved studies of the rock damage associated with the quarrying activities as well as of the recovered material remains ...
Naama Goren-Inbar +4 more
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Journal of Lithic StudiesThe chipped stone assemblages of early farmers in the south of the Eastern Europe take several forms. 1) They can have a developed laminar component, with production wastes underrepresented, with a high percentage of retouched items (mostly blades with ...
Dmytro Kiosak
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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2021 The authors present the evidence gathered during the interdisciplinary study of several polished stone tools from some Neolithic sites in Hungary. In particular, the cutting-edged tool production (axes, adzes, chisels) involves knapping at several stages
Elisabetta Starnini, György Szakmány
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Dissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae, 2022 András Marton has recently come into the possession of a small, chipped stone assemblage from the legacy of a German amateur mineral collector from Hamburg. Unfortunately, very little is known about the deceased and his collection.
Attila Péntek, Norbert Faragó
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Stone as material for production of chipped artifacts in Early and Middle Neolithic of Serbia [PDF]
Starinar, 2002 In this work we studied artifacts from 20 Early and Middle Neolithic sites in Serbia. Stone used as raw material for production of chipped tools are defined and we pointed to inadequate usage of certain terms.
Šarić Josip A.
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Open Archaeology, 2022 It is well known that many Mesolithic and Early Neolithic sites were uncovered during the past century in the Iron Gates region of the North-Central Balkans.
Petrović Anđa +3 more
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Characterization of the Obsidian Used in the Chipped Stone Industry in Kendale Hecala
Quaternary, 2022 Kendale Hecala is located on the Ambar River in the Upper Tigris Basin, province of Diyarbakır in Southeast Anatolia. Various raw materials, including obsidian, radiolarite, chert, jasper, chalcedony, and quartzite, were used in the lithic industry ...
Üftade Muşkara, Ayşin Konak
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White Rock Oneota Chipped Stone Tools [PDF]
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 2005 A standardized approach to descriptive analysis of chipped stone artifacts from the White Rock site (14JW1) in north-central Kansas allows comparison with Oneota lithic assemblages. These comparisons reinforce the interpretation of the White Rock phase as the remains of a late prehistoric Oneota population in the Central Plains. White Rock peoples made
Matthew J. Padilla, Lauren W. Ritterbush
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