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A 14000 year-old hunter-gatherer's toolkit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Phillip C. Edwards
Phillip C. Edwards*
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*Archaeology Program, La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia (Email: p.edwards@latrobe.edu.au)
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A sickle, 21 flint lunates for tipping spears and evidence of the hunted quarry – gazelle bones – lay together by the wall of a Natufian building. The author deduces that these objects were contained in a bag and constituted the versatile working equipment of a hunter-gatherer.

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NatufianJordanagriculturehuntingprojectilesickle

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Antiquity , Volume 81 , Issue 314 , 1 December 2007 , pp. 865 - 876
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2007

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