book chapter
Stone and other artifacts
Village on the Euphrates: from foraging to farming at Abu Hureyra, byA.M.T. Moore, G.C. Hillman, A.J. Legge ; with contributions by J. Huxtable ... [et al • London • Published In 2000 • Pages: 165-186, 550
By: Moore, A. M. T. (Andrew Michael Tangye).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Moore describes and analyzes the non-chipped stone artifacts from Abu Hureyra 1, most of the artifacts were used in procuring and processing food. He points out the sources of the raw materials used. Many of the grinding dishes have red ochre on their surface, so they would have been used to process this coloring as well as for food processing. Two unusual types of artifacts are the stone balls, which appear to be weights, and the bitumen smearer, which may have applied bitumen to baskets to make them waterproof. Also found were notched pebble weights used as fishing net weights. Finally, Moore provides a culture summary for Abu Hureyra 1 and compares this site with contemporary ones.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Lithic industries
- General tools
- Food preparation
- Culture summary
- Cultural participation
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Epipaleolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 11,500 B.P.-10,000 B.P.
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Abu Hureyra 1, Syria
- NotesAdditional notes
- A. T. M. Moore
- For bibliographical references see the Aceramic Neolithic collection(M084) document 14:Moore
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98002893
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic period--Syria/Excavations (Archaeology)--Syria/Abu Hureyra, Tall (Syria)/Syria--Antiquities