The Deep and the Shallow: The Role of Natufian Bedrock Features at Rosh Zin, Central Negev, Israel
The Natufian material remains include ample evidence for complex social and ritual life, and even heavy "hints" for incipient cereal/legume agriculture. The Natufians were innovative in many ways, particularly in their stone use and stone working. Interestingly, the scores of known Late Na...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
2009
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2009, Volume: 355, Pages: 1-29 |
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| Summary: | The Natufian material remains include ample evidence for complex social and ritual life, and even heavy "hints" for incipient cereal/legume agriculture. The Natufians were innovative in many ways, particularly in their stone use and stone working. Interestingly, the scores of known Late Natufian bedrock mortars and cupmarks are hardly documented and studied. We use the case study of the Rosh Zin assemblage (Negev Desert, Israel) to show that they are varied in types and that many of them were most probably never primarily used for food or mineral processing (as is commonly held). Rather, some are too narrow to work inside, some are intentionally perforated at their bottom, and some have a stone or a flint core purposefully inserted into their narrow shaft. We believe that such evidence, also known from several other Natufian sites, may reflect behavior patterns that were not part of routine, mundane activities. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/BASOR25609332 |