Identification of an EB IIIA Incised Bone Tube Workshop at Tell el-Hesi, Israel
The Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Hesi (1970-1983) identified an unusually large number of incised bone tubes from Early Bronze Age IIIA contexts in Field VI. Excavations recovered a total of 15 fragments of the distinctive EB III incised artefacts, two incised bone beads, worked bone d...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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In: |
Palestine exploration quarterly
Year: 2020, Volume: 152, Issue: 4, Pages: 332-364 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bronze Age
/ Animal remains
/ Attribute
/ Analysis
/ Bone implements
/ Tradition
/ Workshop
/ Levant (Süd)
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IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism HH Archaeology |
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Summary: | The Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell el-Hesi (1970-1983) identified an unusually large number of incised bone tubes from Early Bronze Age IIIA contexts in Field VI. Excavations recovered a total of 15 fragments of the distinctive EB III incised artefacts, two incised bone beads, worked bone debris, and installations for heating concentrated in a sector immediately adjacent to the city wall. Based on these co-occurrences, the original project staff tentatively suggested a bone tube workshop was operational on the site. However, a follow up study was never conducted. This paper provides empirical evidence for the existence of this bone tube workshop and for an associated techno-stylistic tradition at Tell el-Hesi during the EB IIIA. We identify the workshop’s presence using a suite of archaeological correlates: 1) the physical concentration of working debris, partially-finished artefacts, copper tools, and working installations in a differentiated ‘industrial’ space in Field VI; 2) evidence for the same chaîne opératoire involving distinctive production sequences and metal tool use on artefacts and debris from this sector; and 3) closely-shared stylistic and morphometric attributes among both finished and partially-finished fragments. |
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ISSN: | 1743-1301 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Palestine exploration quarterly
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2020.1848085 |