Tell Qasile (North): Remains of a Pre-Ghassulian Structure on Fichmann Street, Tel Aviv (pp. 131–139)

Authors

• Ronit Lupu, Israel Antiquities Authority
• Ayelet Dayan Israel Antiquities Authority

Abstract

The excavation revealed remains of walls, living surfaces, pottery sherds, flint artifacts, stone vessels and animal bones that can be attributed mainly to Pre-Ghassulian entities dating within the first half of the fifth millennium BCE. The small assemblage of finds from the site suggests a chrono-cultural attribution within the transitional period between the late Wadi Rabah and the beginning of the Ghassulian Chalcolithic cultures. The faunal assemblage comprises mainly sheep/goat remains, as well as a single hippopotamus(?) bone. The site represents an important milestone in the research of late prehistory in the Tel Aviv area, attesting to the presence of a Pre-Ghassulian entity on the central coastal plain.

Keywords

southern Levant, central coastal plain, Late Neolithic, Early Chalcolithic, flint knapping, construction methods, animal treatment, environmental setting, archaeozoology

Recommended Citation

Lupu, R and Dayan, A Israel Antiquities Authority 2015. Tell Qasile (North): Remains of a Pre-Ghassulian Structure on Fichmann Street, Tel Aviv (pp. 131–139). 'Atiqot 82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1632

Available at: https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol82/iss1/4