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Jericho and the changing ideology of a Neolithic Society
This is a small axe from Jericho (PPNA or PPNB; 7×1,8×1,8 cm). Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) is the name of a tell situated on an ancient lake bed plain in the Jordan valley in what is now is known as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Jericho, Natufian, neolithic, PPNA, PPNB
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Fayum- No need for crops?
A bifacial spear point or a stemmed dagger (9x3xo,4 cm) from the Fayum (Faiyum) Neolithic A, found during the Excavations of 1925/26. Along the shorelines of the Fayum Lake the remains of settlements of people who lived partly by farming are still preserved. … Continue reading
Shaheinab Gouge
This is a typical “Shaheinab Gouge” (7 cm long), found somewhere the Sahara during the 1980ies. The site of Shaheinab was excavated 1949-1950 by A.J. Arkell for the Sudan Antiquities Service. Shaheinab is located between Jebel Aulia and the Sixth Cataract. … Continue reading
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Tagged Khartoum Neolithic, Mesolithic, neolithic, Nubia, Sudan
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Fayum Continued
A wonderful 11 cm long bifacial leaf shaped instrument from Fayum coming from Caton Thomsons survey and originally part of an American University collection, that was later closed and sold. The Neolithic A in the Fayum area is supposed to have started … Continue reading
Simply in Stones
This blog is a document of my own enthusiasm (obsession?) for lithic artifacts. I combine this highly emotional theme with my scientific interest. The “semiophores” concept (http://www.aggsbach.de/2010/09/collecting-paleolithic-artefacts/) referes to my fascination on artifacts but my scientific attitude remains related to my efforts of being … Continue reading
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Tagged Collections, neolithic, Paleolithics, Semiophores, Steinzeit, stone age
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Neolithic Axe from St. Jean d’Eyraud / Bergeracois
This is a flat Neolithic axe (12 cm long) from St. Jean d’Eyraud near Bergerac There are numerous open-air stations around Bergerac, both from Paleolithic and Neolithic times. Neolithic artifact types are axes, adzes, daggers, tanged or barbed arrowheads and … Continue reading
Female Figurine from Eggendorf am Walde (Höbarthmuseum; Horn)
Female Figurine from Eggendorf am Walde, Lower Austria, found during the 1930ies and displayed in the Höbarth Museum at Horn. It is dated to the early Lengyel “culture” at about 4500 BC. The figurine art of the Lengyel complex included … Continue reading
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Tagged Figurines, LBK, Lengyel, Lower Austria, neolithic, Venus Figurines
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Social stratification during the Upper Paleolithic?
This is a bracelet from the early Middle Bronze Age of Pannonia. The central European Bronze Age archaeological record is characterized by ample evidence for a socially stratified society. “Political egalitarianism is a social organization in which decisions are reached … Continue reading
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Tagged Gravettian, Natufian, neolithic, Pavlovian, Social stratification
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Tabular Scrapers of the Levant
Tabular scrapers are flat scrapers manufactured on larger flakes, which show intentional retention of the cortex on virtually the entire dorsal surface of the implement. They were manufactured from special large flint nodules with flat cortical surfaces and can be … Continue reading
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Tagged Bronze Age, Chalcolithic, Levant, Microtraceology, neolithic, Scaper
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A perforated shoe-last adze from the early/ middle Neolithic in South Germany
A perforated shoe-last adze from the early/ middle Neolithic in South Germany (25 x 7 x 3 cm). D.C.M. Raemaekers recently reviewed the early to middle Neolithic perforated axes in Germany and the Netherlands. In German literature the search for … Continue reading