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Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Lithic technologies at Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel East, Israel

Lengyel, György.

"Raqefet cave is found on the south-eastern side of Mount Carmel, in a wadi (called Raqefet) running north-west to south-east, 0.5 km upstream from the confluence with wadi Yoqneam. This valley provides a major access route between the coast and the Plain of Jezreel, dividing the Cenomanian - Turonian limestones of Mount Carmel from the Eocene chalks of the Menashe Hills in the south. Excavations were conducted between 1970 and 1972. The excavation procedure, using wet sieving, collected a quantitatively comprehensive sample of artefact remains without bias for size or other factors. Therefore the lithic assemblages of Raqefet are fully suitable for wide-ranging technology study. This work views lithic assemblages as a product of technical behavioural phenomena. The method used in this analysis derives from French lithic studies, reconstructing operational sequences (chaîne...

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