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A Large Copper Artefacts Assemblage of Fazael, Jordan Valley

open access: diamondDocumenta Praehistorica, 2020
Late Chalcolithic metallurgy developed in the southern Levant simultaneously with other crafts and new social institutions, reflecting advances in social organization, cults and technology. Until recently, copper items were mostly found in the Negev and
Danny Rosenberg   +3 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Identification of Fazael 2 (4000–3900 BCE) as first lost wax casting workshop in the Chalcolithic Southern Levant [PDF]

open access: goldHeritage Science, 2023
Apart from many lost wax cast metal fragments, crucible fragments and several heated sediment nodules were found at the Chalcolithic site Fazael 2 (central Jordan Valley).
Thomas Rose   +3 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Ground stone tool assemblages at the end of the Chalcolithic period: A preliminary analysis of the Late Chalcolithic sites in the Fazael Valley

open access: diamondJournal of Lithic Studies, 2016
The very Late Chalcolithic sites of the Fazael Valley exhibit changes in settlement patterns and material culture. This paper presents the analysis of the ground stone tool assemblages of these sites, and includes the combination of attribute analysis ...
Haggai Cohen-Klonymus, Shay Bar
doaj   +5 more sources

Why Painted? The Decorated Stone Tools from Fazael 4, an Early Bronze Age I Site in the Jordan Valley

open access: bronzeJerusalem Journal of Archaeology, 2023
The current paper discusses three painted ground stone tools—two upper grinding stones and a bowlet—from the Early Bronze Age Ia2 rural settlement Fazael 4. All three items are utilitarian and potentially linked to food processing (particularly grinding stones).
Karolina Hruby   +2 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Salibiya XII and Fazael VI: Two Natufian Sites in the Lower Jordan Valley within Their Contexts

open access: bronzeJerusalem Journal of Archaeology
This paper presents the results of brief salvage investigations of two Early Natufian occupations on the western side of the Lower Jordan Valley. Both sites were located adjacent to major water sources at a time when the latest Pleistocene Lake Lisan was shrinking rapidly.
A. Nigel Goring‐Morris   +1 more
openalex   +2 more sources

The Identity- Constructing Works of the Shiite Community [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ اسلام, 2021
From the beginning of the third century and the initiation of occultation of the twelfth Imam, the scholars of Twelver Shiites felt the need for the development of the works on hadith, jurisprudence and theology.
Fatemeh Sadat Mirrazi, rasool jafarian
doaj   +1 more source

Birds as indicators of early Holocene biodiversity and the seasonal nature of human activity at WF16, an early Neolithic site in Faynan, Southern Jordan

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 37, Issue 6, Page 1148-1163, August 2022., 2022
Abstract Birds are useful indicators of biodiversity. Their bones have been used for reconstructing the local environments and seasonality of human activity at Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic sites in south‐west Asia. We consider the bird bones from WF16, an early Neolithic settlement in southern Jordan, currently located in an arid environment ...
Steven Mithen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

First evidence for alloying practices in the Chalcolithic Southern Levant (4500–3800 BCE) as revealed by metallography

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2023
Excavations at the Chalcolithic site Fazael in the central Jordan Valley uncovered a large number of metal items, many of them polymetallic copper alloys cast in the lost wax technique.
Thomas Rose   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bee products in the prehistoric southern levant: evidence from the lipid organic record. [PDF]

open access: yesR Soc Open Sci, 2021
Chasan R   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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