Organized waste disposal in the Pottery Neolithic: A bifacial workshop refuse pit at Ein Zippori, Israel

Aviad Agam; Naama Walzer; Heeli C. Schechter; Katia Zutovski; Ianir Milevski; Nimrod Getzov; Avi Gopher; Ran Barkai

doi:10.1080/00934690.2016.1240598

Organized waste disposal in the Pottery Neolithic: A bifacial workshop refuse pit at Ein Zippori, Israel

Aviad Agam^*, Naama Walzer, Heeli C. Schechter, Katia Zutovski, Ianir Milevski, Nimrod Getzov, Avi Gopher, Ran Barkai

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A unique Pottery Neolithic context corresponding to the Wadi Rabah culture was found at the multi-layered site of Ein Zippori, Israel. Given the significant amount of flakes, cortical flakes, thinning flakes, and bifacial tool rejects, it was classified as a refuse pit in which bifacial knapping waste from a nearby workshop was disposed. In this paper we present the assemblage of Locus 8071, focusing on the by-products of bifacial tool manufacture and maintenance as well as bifacial tool rejects. We reconstruct the bifacial knapping and maintenance procedures and suggest that Locus 8071 was a disposal area for by-products from a knapping workshop of bifacial tools—an aspect of spatial organization related to possible specialized lithic production at Ein Zippori during the Neolithic period.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	713-730
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Field Archaeology
Volume	41
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2016.1240598
State	Published - 1 Nov 2016

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Levant
Neolithic
bifacial tools
knapping by-products
refuse pit

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