Flint Trade in the Protohistoric Levant: The Complexities and Implications of Tabular Scraper Exchange in the Levantine Protohistoric Periods

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Prologue: notes on the archaeology of exchange
2. The tabular scrapers: a background to a cross-cultural exchange system
	A first overview
	The geographical and cultural background to the tabular scraper trade
	The settled zone chronologies and general features
	The desert zones
	Tabular scrapers: basic chronology
	Note
3. The tabular scraper from tool type to chaîne opératoire
	Methodology and research agenda
		Problems in the definition of tabular scrapers
		Problems of incomplete data description
		Absence of contextual information
	A first description
	Raw materials
	Manufacturing methods
	Technique
	Typology
	The retouch
	Techno-economic strategies and socio-cultural behaviors
4. Use and function
	Physical utilization
	Social function
		Incisions
			Distribution
			Motifs
			Comparisons and interpretations
		\'Special\' contexts
		Intentional breakage
5. The production system
	Production sites
		Production sites without intensive quarrying
		Production sites with intensive quarrying
		Production sites: chronological, social, and geographical trends
		Other structures of production of tabular scrapers: curated and expedient production
	Secondary workshops
	Stockage
	Notes
6. The trade and exchange system
	Distribution and frequency
	Methodological notes
	The desert: the intra-regional exchange system and the external-trade system
	The contact zone: an inter-cultural exchange system in the interface between nomads and sedentary
	The settled zone: internal exchange and consumption zone
	Beyond the Southern Levant
		The Egyptian system
		The Northern Levant and the Northern Mesopotamia
	Notes
7. Tabular scraper value
8. The comparative contexts of the tabular scraper system
	A comparative perspective
	The different production and exchange systems
		Ceramics
		Sickles
		Stone vessels
		Milling stones
		Copper
		Trinkets and beads
	The general contexts of tabular scraper exchange
9. The tabular scraper system: \'rise\' and \'collapse\' of a dynamic complex
10. Concluding discussion: the tabular scraper system in context
	Note
Appendix 1:. The tabular scraper catalogue
Appendix 2:. Tabular scraper database
Bibliography
Index