Cultic Activities at Mitzpe Shalem, Judean Desert: The Lithic Perspective
Analysis of the chipped stone assemblage from the late 4th-early 3rd cult site at Mitzpe Shalem in the Judean desert, with special focus on the lithic waste, offers insight into protohistoric cult practices. Specifically, special tools—tabular scrapers—were imported from the desert periphery, incise...
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| 出版年: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/paleorient, |
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| フォーマット: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 言語: | Anglais |
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Paléorient
2025
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | Analysis of the chipped stone assemblage from the late 4th-early 3rd cult site at Mitzpe Shalem in the Judean desert, with special focus on the lithic waste, offers insight into protohistoric cult practices. Specifically, special tools—tabular scrapers—were imported from the desert periphery, incised with symbolic markings, utilized most likely as ritual butchering knives, and then either deliberately shattered or resharpened and reused. However, reuse necessitated the cancellation of the earlier sets of symbols. After reuse, these tools were also deliberately broken. Located on the seam between the settled zone and the desert, the site cluster served as locus for ritual gathering and performance used by settled communities of the Dead Sea region. |
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