2007
DOI: 10.3406/paleo.2007.5218
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Excavations at Motza in the Judean Hills and the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B in the Southern Levant

Abstract: Recent excavations at Motza near Jerusalem revealed a large Neolithic site that was continuously inhabited from the Early PPNB until the Pottery Neolithic period. The well-dated Early PPNB occupation comprises various architectural remains, human burials, clay and stone fi gurines, and rich fl int and obsidian assemblages. Layer VI is approximately 2 m thick and consists of three discrete occupational levels with distinct architectural remains. These include curvilinear and rectangular structures with lime pla… Show more

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“…Wild gazelle preference at KHH is undoubtedly related to its important role in PPN ritual practices, especially once the process of animal management began. The importance of gazelle in ritual practice is attested by unusual deposits at PPNB sites including a headless gazelle carcass burial associated with a plastered human skull at KHH [11], a pair of burned gazelle horns in a human grave at Motza [25], a gazelle skull placed in a wall niche at LPPNB 'Ain Jammam [106], and several gazelle horn pairs recovered on the floor of a building and, in the courtyard outside, an articulated gazelle carcass with burned feet at LPPNB 'Ain Ghazal [107]. …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Wild gazelle preference at KHH is undoubtedly related to its important role in PPN ritual practices, especially once the process of animal management began. The importance of gazelle in ritual practice is attested by unusual deposits at PPNB sites including a headless gazelle carcass burial associated with a plastered human skull at KHH [11], a pair of burned gazelle horns in a human grave at Motza [25], a gazelle skull placed in a wall niche at LPPNB 'Ain Jammam [106], and several gazelle horn pairs recovered on the floor of a building and, in the courtyard outside, an articulated gazelle carcass with burned feet at LPPNB 'Ain Ghazal [107]. …”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…From a core zone of invention in the middle Euphrates valley, the technology dispersed along the Euphrates, to Cappadocia, until Cyprus and the southern part of Sinai (Borrell, ). Rather than a direct colonisation by the northern Levantine populations (Cauvin, ; Gopher et al, ), a progressive, though rapid, transfer of traditions is more likely due to important interaction and contacts between regions (Ibáñez et al, ; Khalaily et al, ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…BCE au sein de quelques rares sites datés du PPNB ancien dans le Levant sud (région boisée méditerranéenne) comme Motza (level VI), Horvat Galil et Kfar HaHoresh (Barzilai 2010;Khalaily et al 2007). Les études des niveaux PPNB ancien de Motza (Khalayli et al 2007) ont confirmé les hypothèses proposées pour Horvat Galil (Gopher 1997) qui suggéraient qu'au cours de ces premiers stades, la technologie bipolaire ne représentait qu'une partie marginale des assemblages lithiques locaux principalement orientés vers des technologies laminaires unipolaires et une production d'éclats.…”
Section: Variantes Et Diffusionunclassified
“…La présence quasi exclusive de lames centrales ciblées et d'outils retouchés sur ces sites ainsi que l'absence virtuelle de nucléus bipolaires (seulement 1 pièce sur 41 identifiables pour un total de 60 pièces à Motza et 3 pièces sur 28 identifiables pour un total de 56 nucléus à Horvat Galil) et d'éléments de préparation ou de réfection de nucléus suggèrent un débitage mené à l'extérieur des sites ou une importation des lames (à partir du Levant nord) (Barzilai 2013;Gopher 1997). L'étude de la cache de lames de Motza qui a abouti au remontage de sept agrégats (Barzilai 2010;Khalaily et al 2007), a révélé un schéma de débitage particulier dénommé « one-on-one » ( Figure 11A). Cette variante « one-on-one », dont la distribution spatiale et chronologique dans le Levant sud est encore peu connue, a été interprété comme un développement non local, attribué hypothétiquement au Levant nord en raison de quelques similitudes partagées avec les industries de la fin du PPNA de Mureybet (Barzilai 2013).…”
Section: Variantes Et Diffusionunclassified
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