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2010-08-29 07:08:06   •   ID: 1009

Stone Tools after the Stone Age: The Bronze Age of the Levant

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It has early been recognized that chipped stone tools continue to be used after the end of the Neolithic in spite of the introduction of metallurgy.

In Northern Europe the production of delicate sickles and a variety of highly sophisticated daggers made of Flint even peaked during the the early Bronze Age.

The study of stone artefacts from the Levantine Bronze and Iron Age has been neglected for a long time, but gathered more interest after the seminal work of S. Rosen.

Large geometric artefacts appear at the very beginning of Middle Bronze Age and some of them are shown here.

While the traditional interpretation as sickles is based on the presence of gloss on many of these instruments, microscopic analysis has shown, that artifacts, traditionally seen as sickles may have had several other functions (for example the use as threshing sledge inserts).

Suggested Reading:

S. Rosen: Lithic after the Stone Age ; 1997 (see complete attached file)

Provenance: Collection Levenstein (ISR)



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