@article{a119efbd49d2431dbd54e3f92ff23ca3,
title = "Landscape alteration by pre-pottery neolithic communities in the southern Levant - The Kaizer Hilltop Quarry, Israel",
abstract = "This study focuses on Kaizer Hill, a quarry site located in the vicinity of the city of Modiin where remains of a single prehistoric cultural entity assigned to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A were discovered. A systematic survey revealed that large-scale quarrying activities have left damage markings on the bedrock of the Hilltop and its slopes. We aim to present here our findings from the Hilltop, which are concerned with the human impact on rock surfaces and the lithic artifacts retrieved during the survey. It is evident that the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A inhabitants of the area changed their landscape forever, {"}stripping{"} the caliche surface and penetrating it in search of flint bedded in the bedrock.",
author = "Leore Grosman and Naama Goren-Inbar",
note = "Funding Information: We are most grateful to the group of undergraduate students from the Institute of Archeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who took part in the fieldwork during the seasons of 2007, 2008 and 2009. We thank A. Starinsky for producing the geological section and for his advice on geology during fieldwork. T. Tolkatchov participated in the analysis of the lithic assemblage in the framework of her undergraduate studies. Many thanks go to D. Shaham, M. Oron and D. Lavite for their help in the field. Special thank go to R. Lavi for working with us in the field and for long and fruitful discussions. We thank the municipality of Modiin city for providing us with the region map and the Israel Antiquity Authority for granting the use of the site archives, in particular O Marder. We appreciate the help of Y. Yechieli, who provided us with his unpublished geological map of Modiin and its region. Photographs 6, 10, 12, 15 and 16 were taken by Gabi Laron of the photography unit at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sue Gorodetsky edited the manuscript with her usual professionalism and dedication. Our thanks to Noa Klein for the production of , Ruhama Bonfil for Figs –, and the Computerized Archaeology Laboratory for Figs –. We also thank Boaz Grosman and Gonen Sharon for their contributions to the fieldwork. The survey and excavation were supported by the Ruth Amiran Foundation. We appreciate the comments of the reviewers Marta Sanchez de la Torre and Otis Crandell. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Grosman, GorenInbar.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.",
year = "2016",
month = mar,
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150395",
language = "English",
volume = "11",
journal = "PLoS ONE",
issn = "1932-6203",
publisher = "Public Library of Science",
number = "3",
}