Sitting on the tailing piles: Creating extraction landscapes in Middle Pleistocene quarry complexes in the levant

World Archaeology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 211-229

  Gopher, Avi ^a   Barkai, Ran ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Flint extraction; Israel; Lower Middle Paleolithic; Middle Pleistocene; Tailing piles

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; EXTRACTION; FLINT; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; QUARRY; QUARRYING; TAILINGS;

ISRAEL; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 79960710454     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2011.579484     Document Type: Article

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