A techno-typological analysis of fan (tabular) scrapers from Ein Zippori, Israel

Journal of Lithic Studies

Ianir Milevski²  Nimrod Getzov²  Aviad Agam³  Avi Gopher³  Richard W. Yerkes¹  Lucy Wilson⁴  Katia Zutovski³ 

[1]The Ohio State University

[2]Israel Antiquities Authority

[3]Tel Aviv University

[4]University of New Brunswick

关键词: fan scrapers;    tabular scrapers;    Wadi Rabah culture;    Early Bronze Age;    Southern Levant;   

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学科分类：地球科学(综合)

来源: University of Edinburgh * School of History, Classics and Archaeology

【 摘 要 】

Fan (or tabular) scrapers are a diagnostic  tool type in Chalcolithic Ghassulian and Early Bronze Age lithic assemblages from  the southern Levant .To date, only small numbers of fan scrapers have been reported from the Late Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah culture. In this paper we present a techno-typological analysis of a fair sample of fan scrapers and fan scrapers spalls from Wadi Rabah and Early Bronze Age layers at Ein Zippori, Lower Galilee, Israel. Techno-typological similarities and differences of Wadi Rabah, Chalcolithic Ghassulian and Early Bronze Age fan scrapers from Ein Zippori and other sites in the region are presented, trends of change along time are noted, and an updated definition is proposed. Our results indicate that fan scrapers are highly efficient tools for accurate and prolonged animal butchering and hide working. The main advantage of fan scrapers is their mostly flat, thin morphology and large size that permits the creation of several relatively long working edges, various retouched angles (from sharp to abrupt), extensive resharpening, and a comfortable grasp. While fan scrapers were products of a local trajectory in Late Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah lithic industries at Ein Zippori, a standardized, off-site manufacturing of fan scrapers is evident during the Early Bronze Age.

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