The Christmas Cat by Julie Beard
This work has as its main objective to clarify the nature of the early Neolithic period in the Southern Levant, in as much as this represents a key period for the beginning of agrarian societies. This goal is achieved through the analysis of lithics recovered from Zahrat adh-Dhra' 2 (ZAD 2), a site located on the eastern side of the Lisan Peninsular of the Dead Sea, about 1.5 km north of adh-Dhra' village. The importance of ZAD 2 is its short period of occupation, which helps in clarifying the tool typology and technology of the PNA period without the problem of admixtures from other periods. By combining the analyses of architecture, groundstone, lithics and radiocarbon dates, ZAD 2 provides decisive evidence for an extension of the PNA in the Southern-Central Levant. In arguing this, sites from the Southern Levant are compared to their counterparts in the Central and Northern Levant and the role of diffusion or local innovation is presented.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780425155424 |
| ISBN 10 | 0425155420 |
| Title | The Christmas Cat |
| Author | Julie Beard |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 1996-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 310 |
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