Post by UKarchaeology on Apr 4, 2016 18:20:55 GMT
While transiting from hunting to farming, prehistoric people were strip-mining Kaizer Hill for flint and limestone, say archaeologists.
Cupmarks in the rock had been thought to be artifacts of food preparation but are now thought to be artifacts of mining for flintGrosman, Goren-Inbar, Plos ONE
An 11,000-year old quarry where prehistoric people sourced the flint for their arrows and spearheads and limestone too has been identified between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The works provide evidence that well before prehistoric humans settled down, they were capable of manufacturing on what we can only call an industrial scale.
The quarry, found on the 300 meter-high hill Kaizer Hill on the outskirts of Modiin, is the earliest known Neolithic quarry in the southern Levant, though other prehistoric quarries have been found in the area, including an evidently much older one from the lower-middle Paleolithic period, in Sde Ilan.
The marks on Kaizer Hill's bedrock had been recognized as manmade in the past. The innovation now is reinterpreting "cup-marks" in the bedrock. They aren't some remnants or mortars carved into the rock, apparently, but were caused by the Neolithic men digging out suitable rocks.
Full story: www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.712676
Cupmarks in the rock had been thought to be artifacts of food preparation but are now thought to be artifacts of mining for flintGrosman, Goren-Inbar, Plos ONE
An 11,000-year old quarry where prehistoric people sourced the flint for their arrows and spearheads and limestone too has been identified between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The works provide evidence that well before prehistoric humans settled down, they were capable of manufacturing on what we can only call an industrial scale.
The quarry, found on the 300 meter-high hill Kaizer Hill on the outskirts of Modiin, is the earliest known Neolithic quarry in the southern Levant, though other prehistoric quarries have been found in the area, including an evidently much older one from the lower-middle Paleolithic period, in Sde Ilan.
The marks on Kaizer Hill's bedrock had been recognized as manmade in the past. The innovation now is reinterpreting "cup-marks" in the bedrock. They aren't some remnants or mortars carved into the rock, apparently, but were caused by the Neolithic men digging out suitable rocks.
Full story: www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.712676