Neolithic Flint Workshops at Giv‘at Rabi (East) in Lower Galilee (pp. 63–83)

Authors

• Omry Barzilai, Israel Antiquities Authority
• Ianir Milevski Israel Antiquities Authority

Abstract

This article presents the flint assemblages from the Neolithic workshops exposed at Giv‘at Rabi (East), which produced bidirectional blades, unidirectional blades and bifacial tools. The Neolithic blades were produced from wide cores with relatively few preparations. The bifacial tools included unfinished and finished cortical axes and adzes. These techno-typological characteristics suggest that the workshops at Giv‘at Rabi (East) should be dated to the Final Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic (PN) periods. The discovery of the Neolithic workshops at Giv‘at Rabi (East) contributes to our understanding of the organization of the lithic industries in the region of Lower Galilee during the Neolithic period.

Keywords

southern Levant, lithic industry, flint outcrops, tool manufacturing, formal technologies, initial knapping, by-products, transportation

Recommended Citation

Barzilai, O and Milevski, I Israel Antiquities Authority 2015. Neolithic Flint Workshops at Giv‘at Rabi (East) in Lower Galilee (pp. 63–83). 'Atiqot 82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1630

Available at: https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol82/iss1/2