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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ran Barkai ,
Avi Gopher  and
Philip C. La Porta
Ran Barkai
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Avi Gopher
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Philip C. La Porta
Affiliation:
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Graduate School Center, City University of New York, New York NY 10036, USA. [email protected]
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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.

Keywords

flint extractionworkshopsLower–Middle PalaeolithichandaxesLevallois technique
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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 293 , September 2002 , pp. 672 - 680
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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