Ochre and hide-working at a Natufian burial place

Laure Dubreuil; Leore Grosman

doi:10.1017/S0003598X00099269

Ochre and hide-working at a Natufian burial place

Laure Dubreuil^*, Leore Grosman

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Institute of Archaeology

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Abstract

Particular stones found on Epi-Palaeolithic sites in the Levant are thought to be for grinding vegetable matter and to be essential instruments in the development of food processing. Finding an assemblage of these tools in a burial cave, the authors ask a harder question: could they have been used for processing hides with ochre? Use-wear analysis allows a positive verdict, and so the tools take their place in the ritual apparatus associated with burial.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	935-954
Number of pages	20
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	83
Issue number	322
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00099269
State	Published - Dec 2009

Keywords

Burial site
Epi-Palaeolithic
Ground stones
Hilazon Tachtit cave
Natufian
Ochre
Southern Levant
Thirteenth millennium BP
Use-wear

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