Early pyrotechnology in the near east: Experimental lime-plaster production at the pre-pottery neolithic B site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 779-798

  Goren, Y ^a   Goring Morris, A N ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIMESTONE; MODELING; NEOLITHIC;

GALILEE; ISRAEL; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NORTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 60749131076     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20241     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Affonso, M.T.C., & Freiberg, E.P. (2001). Neolithic lime plasters and pozzolanic reactions. Are they occasional occurrences? In R.M. Boehmer & J. Maran (Eds.), Lux orientis. Archaeologie zwishen Asien und Europa, Festschrift für Harald Hauptmann zum 65 Geburstag (pp. 9-13). Rahden/Westfalia: Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH.
2. Arpin, T.L. (2004). Micromorphological analysis of four Early Neolithic sites. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Boston University.
3. Aurenche, O., & Marechal, C. (1985). Note sur la fabrication du plâtre à Qdeir (Syrie). Cahiers de l'Euphrate, 4, 221-226.
4. Bar-Yosef, O. (2001). From sedentary foragers to village hierarchies: The emergence of social institutions. In G. Runciman (Ed.), The origin of human social institutions (pp. 1-38). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Belfer-Cohen, A., & Goring-Morris, A.N. (2002). Recent developments in Near Eastern Neolithic research. Paléorient, 28, 143-148.
6. Cauvin, J. (2000). The birth of the gods and the origins of agriculture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Courty, M.A., Macphail, R., & Goldberg, P. (1989). Soils and micromorphology in archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
8. Eshed, V., Goring-Morris, A.N., & Hershkovitz, I. (in press). The paleodemographic implications of a PrePottery Neolithic B population from Israel: the case of Kfar HaHoresh. Paléorient.
9. Garfinkel, Y. (1987). Yiftahel: A Neolithic village from seventh millennium B.C. in Lower Galilee, Israel. Journal of Field Archaeology, 14, 199-212.
10. Garfinkel, Y. (1988). Burnt lime products and social implications in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B villages in the Near East. Paléorient, 13, 69-76.
11. Goren, Y., & Goldberg, P. (1991). Petrographic thin sections and the development of Neolithic plaster production in northern Israel. Journal of Field Archaeology, 18, 131-138.
12. Goren, Y., Goring-Morris, A.N., & Segal, I. (2001). The technology of skull modeling in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB): Regional variability, the relation of technology and iconography and their archaeological implications. Journal of Archaeological Science, 28, 671-690.
13. Goring-Morris, A.N. (1991). PPNB Settlement at Kfar HaHoresh in Lower Galilee: A preliminary report of the 1991 season. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 24, 77-101.
14. Goring-Morris, A.N. (1994). Aspects of the PPNB lithic assemblage from Kfar HaHoresh, near Nazareth, Israel. In H.-G. Gebel & S.K. Kozlowski (Eds.), Neolithic chipped lithic industries of the fertile crescent (pp. 427-444). Berlin: ex oriente.
15. Goring-Morris, A.N. (2000). The quick and the dead: The social context of aceramic Neolithic mortuary practices as seen from Kfar HaHoresh. In I. Kuijt (Ed.), Social configurations of the Near Eastern Neolithic: Community identity, hierarchical organization and ritual (pp. 103-135). New York: Plenum.
16. Goring-Morris, A.N. (2005). Life, death and the emergence of differential status in the Near Eastern Neolithic: Evidence from Kfar HaHoresh, Lower Galilee, Israel. In J. Clark (Ed.), Archaeological perspectives on the transmission and transformation of culture in the Eastern Mediterranean (pp. 89-105). Oxford: Council for British Research in the Levant & Oxbow Books.
17. Goring-Morris, A. N., & Belfer-Cohen, A. (1997). The articulation of cultural processes and Late Quaternary environmental changes in Cisjordan. Paléorient 23, 71-93.
18. Goring-Morris, A.N., & Belfer-Cohen, A. (2002). Symbolic behaviour from the Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic of the Near East: Preliminary observations on continuity and change. In H.-G.K. Gebel, B.D. Hermansen, & C.H. Jensen (Eds.), Magic practices and ritual in the Near Eastern Neolithic (pp. 67-79). Berlin: ex oriente.
19. Goring-Morris, A.N., Goren, Y., Horwitz, L.K., & Bar-Yosef, D. (1995a). Investigations at an Early Neolithic settlement in Lower Galilee: Results of the 1991 season at Kfar HaHoresh. 'Atiqot, 27, 37-62.
20. Goring-Morris, A.N., Goren, Y., Horwitz, L.K., & Bar-Yosef, D. (1995b). The 1992 season of excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B settlement of Kfar HaHoresh. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, 26, 74-121.
21. Goring-Morris, A.N., Burns, R., Davidzon, A., Eshed, V., Goren, Y., Hershkovitz, I., Kangas, S., & Kelecevic, J. (1998). The 1997 season of excavations at the mortuary site of Kfar HaHoresh, Galilee, Israel. Neo-Lithics, 3, 1-4.
22. Goring-Morris, A.N., & Horwitz, L.K. (2007). Funerals and feasts in the Near Eastern Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. Antiquity, 81, 902-919.
23. Goring-Morris, A.N., Hovers, E., & Belfer-Cohen, A. (in press). The dynamics of Pleistocene settlement patterns and human adaptations in the Levant - An overview. In J.J. Shea & D. Lieberman (Eds.), Transitions in prehistory: Papers in honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef. Oakville, CT: David Brown/Oxbow.
24. Gourdin, W.H., & Kingery, W.D. (1975). The beginnings of pyrotechnology: Neolithic and Egyptian lime plaster. Journal of Field Archaeology, 2, 133-150.
25. Greenberg, Y. (1963). The Eocene of Kefar Hahoresh-Illut region and its correlation with the Eocene of Northern Israel. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, 12, 147-158.
26. Hershkovitz, I., Zohar, I., Speirs, M.S., Segal, I., Meirav, O., Sherter, U., Feldman, H., & Goring-Morris, N. (1995). Remedy for an 8500 year-old plastered human skull from Kfar HaHoresh, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science, 22, 779-788.
27. Horwitz, L.K., & Goring-Morris, A.N. (2004). Animals and ritual during the Levantine PPNB: A case study from the site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel. Anthropozoologica, 39, 165-178.
28. Karkanas, P. (2007). Identification of lime plaster in prehistory using petrographic methods: A review and reconsideration of the data on the basis of experimental and case studies. Geoarchaeology, 22, 775-796.
29. Kingery, D.W., Vandiver, P.B., & Pickett, M. (1988). The beginnings of pyrotechnology, part II: Production and use of lime and gypsum plaster in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Near East. Journal of Field Archaeology, 15, 219-244.
30. Kuijt, I., & Goring-Morris, A.N. (2002). Foraging, farming and social complexity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the South-Central Levant: A review and synthesis. Journal of World Prehistory, 16, 361-440.
31. Leslie, A.B., & Hughes, J.J. (2002). Binder microstructure in lime mortars: Implications for the interpretation of analysis results. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 35, 257-263.
32. Macphail, R.I., & Goldberg, P. (1995). Recent advances in micromorphological interpretation of soils and sediments from archaeological sites. In A.J. Barham & R.I. Macphail (Eds.), Archaeological sediments and soils: Analysis, interpretation and management (pp. 1-24). London: Institute of Archaeology, University College, London.
33. Malinowski, R., & Garfinkel, Y. (1991). Prehistory of concrete. Concrete International, 3, 62-68.
34. Rollefson, G.O. (1990). The uses of plaster at Neolithic' Ain Ghazal, Jordan. Archeomaterials, 4, 33-54.
35. Rollefson, G.O. (1991). The critical role of technological analysis for prehistoric anthropological inference. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, 185, 365-374.
36. Rollefson, G.O. (2003). The Neolithic period. In S. Richard (Ed.), Near Eastern archaeology: A reader (pp. 244-253). Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
37. Rollefson, G.O., & Köhler-Rollefson, I. (1989). The collapse of Early Neolithic settlements in the southern Levant. In I. Hershkovitz (Ed.), People and culture in change: Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Populations of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin (pp. 73-89). Oxford: BAR International Series 508(i).
38. Rollefson, G.O., & Köhler-Rollefson, I. (1992). Early Neolithic exploitation patterns in the Levant: Cultural impact on the environment. Population and Environment, 13, 243-254.
39. Simmons, A.H. (2007). The Neolithic revolution in the Near East: Transforming the human landscape. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
40. Simmons, T., Horowitz, L.K., & Goring-Morris, A.N. (2007). "What ceremony else?" Taphonomy and the ritual treatment of the dead in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B mortuary complex at Kfar HaHoresh, Israel. In M. Faerman, L.K. Horwitz, T. Kahana, & U. Zilberman (Eds.), Faces from the past: Diachronic patterns in the biology and health status of human populations from the Eastern Mediterranean (pp. 1-27). Oxford: Archaeopress, BAR International Series 1603.
41. Tsatskin, A., & Gendler, T.S. (2002). Further notes on terra rossa and related soils near Kfar Hahoresh archaeological site, Israel. In P. Zdruli, P. Steduto, & S. Kapur (Eds.), Options Mediterranéennes, Série A, n. 50 (pp. 109-120). Bari: CIHEAM-IAMB.
42. Verhoeven, M. (2004). Beyond boundaries: Nature, culture and a holistic approach to domestication in the Levant. Journal of World Prehistory, 18, 179-282.
43. Wingate, M. (1985). Small-scale lime-burning, a practical introduction. London: Intermediate Technology Publications.