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, Ronit and Dayan, Ayelet Israel Antiquities Authority
(2015)
"Tell Qasile (North): Remains of a Pre-Ghassulian Structure on Fichmann Street, Tel Aviv (pp. 131–139),"
'Atiqot: Vol. 82, Article 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1632
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol82/iss1/4
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