Palaeolithic landscape of extraction: Flint surface quarries and workshops at Mt Pua, Israel

Ran Barkai; Abraham Gopher; Philip C. La Porta

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Palaeolithic landscape of extraction: Flint surface quarries and workshops at Mt Pua, Israel

Ran Barkai^*, Abraham Gopher, Philip C. La Porta

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Department of Archaeology

City University of New York

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Abstract

The authors report on investigations at quarrying sites on Mount Pua, Israel. they suggest that the area shows a degree of industrial organization from the late Lower Palaeolithic with a resultant impact on the landscape.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	672-680
Number of pages	9
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	76
Issue number	293
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00091110
State	Published - Sep 2002

Keywords

Flint extraction
Handaxes
Levallois technique
Lower-Middle Palaeolithic
Workshops

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