caa a22 4500 388103493 CHVBK 20180307125329.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0079497X00002036 doi S0079497X00002036 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0079497X00002036 Barkai Ran Department of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, POB 39040, Ramat Aviv, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel Resharpening and Recycling of Flint Bifacial Tools from the Southern Levant Neolithic and Chalcolithic [Elektronische Daten] [Ran Barkai] This paper attempts at reconstructing the life cycle of flint bifacial tools in two major technological trajectories, each aimed at a different end. It is focused on discarded polished flint bifacial tools (axe, adze, chisel) and bifacial polished debitage items found in Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites (9th-6th millennium BP) from the Southern Levant. Recent studies of Holocene flint assemblages revealed special types of debitage items such as blades, flakes, cores and core trimming elements, all bearing traces of polish. The discovery of these polished debitage items in Levantine sites enabled a study of bifacial tool resharpening and recycling techniques, emphasising the exceptional attention paid to this tool category. Since polished bifacial tools appear in many old world Holocene archaeological contexts, the data and interpretation presented in this study have implications far beyond the Southern Levant and could relate to universal technological properties of flint axes and other bifacial tools. Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1999 Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Cambridge University Press 65(1999), 303-318 0079-497X 65<303 1999 65 PPR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0079497X00002036 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0079497X00002036 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Barkai Ran Department of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, POB 39040, Ramat Aviv, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Cambridge University Press 65(1999), 303-318 0079-497X 65<303 1999 65 PPR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge