Résumé français
Preface by Ofer Bar-Yosef
Introduction
- A few words about this book
- Book structure
- Description of industries/groups of industries
- Sampling
- List of sites and Bibliography
- "Sickles"
- The blade with "mirror-like" polishing: the myth or the reality, by Galina F. Korobkova
- Acknowledgments
Early "Neolithic" Culture of the Near East
- The Fertile Crescent and Beyond
- Early "Neolihic" Culture - Homogenity and Diversity
- Stylistic Differentation, Industrial Provinces of the Near East
- The Industries
- Functional Differentation of "Home" Flint Industies of the "Neolithic"
- Chronology
- Periodization
- Lithic Industries vs. Ceramic Cultures
Iraqi-Iranian Province
- Introduction
- Nemrikian Industry (Industries?)
- Conclusions
- Mlefatian Industries
- Late Industries of the Iraq-lranian Province
- Post-Mlefatian
- Sawwan Industry
- Post-Nemrikian lndustry (lraqi facies of BAI)
- Agro-Standard
Levantine Province
- Introduction
- Early Industries
- First Stage: Khamian Industries
- Second Stage: Mureibetian Aswadian/Early PPNB Industries
- Late Industries
- Big Arrowheads Industries (BAI)
- Lithic Industries of the Neolithic period in the Southem Central Levant: A Review, by Avi Gopher
- Introduction
- Raw Materials
- Methodological issues and the "stare of the art"
- A survey of Neolithic Flint Industries
- Discussion and Summary
Caucasian-Caspian Province
- Introduction
- Trialetian
- Late (Post-Trialetian) Industries of the Caucasian-Caspian Province
- BAI Post-Trialetian Industry
- Late Industries of Central Asia
- Late Industries of the Iranian Plateau
Final Remarks
- Generalities
- Stylistic differentation
- Regionalities
- Iraqi-Iranian Province
- Caucasian Province
- Levantine Province
- Chronological table
- Raw materials
- "Subindustries"
- Paleohistory
- A Breakthrough
- Two Roads
- Changes in the West
- New Order
- Big Bang
- Changes in the East
List of Sites and Bibliography
- List of Sites
- Personal and/or letter informations/permision, access to unpublished material
- Unpublished original drawings and notes
- Studied collections and samples of artefacts
- Bibliography
- Catalogues of sites
- Chronology and periodisation
- Typology
- Taxonomy
- Technology
- Raw material
- Function of sites/industries
- Function of tools
- Origins of "Neolithic" industries
- Regional studies on lithic industries
Captions
- Figure captions
- Plates captions
- Maps Titles
Plates I-LXXXI
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