book chapter
An early village site at Zawi Chemi Shanidar
Undena Publications • 13 • Published In 1981 • Pages: vi, 1-71, 81-116 , [13] of plates
By: Solecki, Rose L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Zawi Chemi Shanidar is an open air site in northeastern Iraq that had fairly good preservation with bone and horn found. The date for the site and the microlithic stone tools indicate the site is from a transitional period from the late Epipaleolithic to the Prepottery Neolithic. As microlithic chipped stone tools are usually considered to be Epipaleolithic, they were not indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) subjects. There was a wide range of chipped stone tools, including many for food processing of grains or nuts. There is indirect evidence for cereal agriculture and by the end of the settlement's occupation, the residents had domestic sheep. One structure was found that appears to have been for religious purposes as it had a ritual deposit nearby composed of goat skulls and wing bones from predatory birds.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Lithic industries
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- General tools
- Religious and educational structures
- Prayers and sacrifices
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aceramic Neolithic
- 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
- 1956-1957, and 1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- early village, Layer B; 10,870±300 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zawi Chemi Shanidar, Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Rose L. Solecki
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [81]-85)
- end figures and plates paginated as 86-116
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic period--Iraq--Zawi Chemi Shanidar Site/Paleolithic period--Iraq--Zawi Chemi Shanidar Site/Zawi Chemi Shanidar Site (Iraq)