Flint knapping in the late bronze age: A dying technology? a perspective from the lower city of hazor

Levant

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-57

  Shimelmitz, Ron ^a,b   Zuckerman, Sharon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b The David Yellin College of Education   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Expedient reduction; Hazor; Late bronze age; Lithic technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901443344     PISSN: 00758914     EISSN: 17563801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/0075891413Z.00000000035     Document Type: Review

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