The Eastern Wing of the Fertile Crescent

Late prehistory of Greater Mesopotamian lithic industries

£70.00
Author:
Stefan Karol Kozlowski with chapters by Avi Gopher and Galina Korobkova and Preface by Ofer Bar-Yosef
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549659
Paperback:
279pp, Includes 81 plates, maps, drawings and tables
Sub-series name:
Maison de l’Orient Méditerranéen
ISBN 10:
0860549658
BAR number:
S760
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
This book is a contribution to our understanding of the agricultural revolution that took place some 10,000 years ago in southwestern Asia. Kozlowski analyses lithic industries of the 'Eastern Wing' of the Greater Mesopotamia, that is the area of the foothills of the Taurus (from the Tigris) and the Zagros all the way to Khuzistan. The author provides a description of every identifiable culture in the region, and in most cases this is the first attempt to define and describe a given entity. There is an extensive catalogue of sites as well as drawings of unpublished collections of lithics from the area.