Book
The Yarmukian culture of the Neolithic Period
Magnes Press • Jerusalem • Published In 1972 • Pages:
By: Stekelis, M. (Moshe).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is the English translation of the one that first appeared in Hebrew in 1966. In it Stekelis describes the excavations and findings from the Neolithic site on the Yarmuk river terrace near Kibbutz Sha'ar Hagolan. Described are the stratigraphy, the lithics, the ceramics, the art objects (mostly inscibed pebbles), and the settlement. Numerous figures of the artifacts and art objects are included.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Lithic industries
- Lithic industries
- Visual arts
- General tools
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ceramic 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
- 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
- survey: 1943-1947; excavation: 1949-1952
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Yarmukian Neolithic
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kibbutz Sha'ar Hagolan, Yarmuk river terrace, Syria
- NotesAdditional notes
- M. Stekelis
- Translation of ha-Tarbut ha-Yarmukhit
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 45)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76370358
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Neolithic period Israel/Israel Antiquities