An amudian oddity: A giant biface from late lower palaeolithic Qesem Cave

Ran Barkai; Avi Gopher; Natalya Solodenko; Cristina Lemorini

doi:10.1179/033443513X13753505864160

An amudian oddity: A giant biface from late lower palaeolithic Qesem Cave

Ran Barkai, Avi Gopher, Natalya Solodenko, Cristina Lemorini

Department of Archaeology

Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

The paper reports the discovery of an extraordinary flint implement - a large biface - and discusses its significance in the context of Qesem Cave in particular and the late Lower Palaeolithic Acheulo-Yabrudian Cultural Complex of the Levant in general. We contend that this unusually large biface was discarded in an unfinished and unused state, most probably due to a collapse event that took place at the cave some 280,000 years ago.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	176-186
Number of pages	11
Journal	Tel Aviv
Volume	40
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1179/033443513X13753505864160
State	Published - Oct 2013

Keywords

Acheulo-Yabrudian cultural complex
Biface
Handaxe
Middle pleistocene
Qesem Cave

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Archaeology
Cultural Studies
History
Archaeology

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