The Late Natufian at Raqefet Cave: The 2006 Excavation Season
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Cím:
The Late Natufian at Raqefet Cave: The 2006 Excavation Season
Létrehozó:
Nadel, Dani
Lengyel, György
Bocquentin, Fanny
Kiadó:
Israel Prehistoric Society
Dátum:
2008
Téma:
CC Archaeology / régészet
D1 Prehistory / őstörténet
Tartalmi leírás:
A long season of excavation took place at Raqefet cave during the summer of 2006. In the
first chamber we exposed an area rich with Natufian human burials (Locus 1), a large bedrock
basin with a burial and two boulder mortars (Locus 2), an in situ Natufian layer (Locus 3),
and two areas with rich cemented sediments (tufa) covering the cave floor (Loci 4, 5). The
latter indicate that at the time of occupation the Natufian layers covered the entire floor of
the first chamber. During the ensuing millennia, these were washed away and/or removed
by later visitors to the cave. We found in the cave and the terrace almost 80 human-made
bedrock holes (most of which are commonly but somewhat erroneously termed mortars
and cupmarks). Several contained in situ Natufian remains, and at the top of one a human
skeleton was unearthed. The variety of the HBHs, in terms of shape and dimensions indicates
that they were used in many ways, some of which could not have been for food or mineral
processing. The paper provides results of on-going studies regarding the burials, the HBHs,
the flint assemblage, the faunal remains, the ground stone industry, the bone tools and the
beads. It also presents aspects of geoarchaeology and ground penetrating radar analyses.
Some of the detailed plans and sections were prepared by the use of photogrammetry.
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Article
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Azonosító:
Nadel, Dani and Lengyel, György and Bocquentin, Fanny (2008) The Late Natufian at Raqefet Cave: The 2006 Excavation Season. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 38. pp. 59-131. ISSN 0334-3839
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