Tabular Scraper Trade: A Model of Material Cultural Dispersion

Rosen, Steven A.

doi:10.2307/1356563

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“…Smaller workshops have been found in southern Israel (Rosen 1983;1997: 71, 75). The abundance of large blocks of flint with one or more sizable cortical flake removals, platform-preparation flakes, discarded cortical flakes, and hammerstones on the surface of these sites indicates that they were loci for fan scraper production (Rosen 1983;Fujii 1998Fujii -2001Quintero et al 2002;Müller-Neuhof 2006;. Flake scars on el-Jafr Eocene flint cores are often 20 cm across with an average between 10 and 15 cm.…”

Section: Raw Materials and Procurement Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This was the case at Ein Zippori. In defining 'size', the citations from Rosen (1983) and Quintero et al (2002) contain an internal contradiction, deriving probably from the intensively resharpened and broken state of some fan scrapers. Others (Fujii 2011;Müller-Neuhof 2013) use the term 'palm-sized'.…”

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“…Fan scrapers are known throughout the southern Levant (Israel and Jordan) with more frequent occurrences in southern regions such as the Negev and Sinai, and reduced numbers as one goes northwards (Rosen 1983;Beit-Arieh et al 2003;Milevski 2013). However, according to Abe (2008: 420-424), the number of fan scrapers in lithic assemblages increased drastically in central Israel during the EBA.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, according to Abe (2008: 420-424), the number of fan scrapers in lithic assemblages increased drastically in central Israel during the EBA. There are claims that fan scrapers also occur in assemblages from Syria, Egypt (Rosen 1983;Rizkana & Seeher 1988: 29-31;Stępień 2012) and in southeastern Anatolia, the middle Euphrates area in northern Syria and perhaps in southern Mesopotamia in the Uruk culture (Müller-Neuhof 2006).…”

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“…Fan (or tabular) scrapers are a diagnostic tool type in Chalcolithic Ghassulian (CHG) and Early Bronze Age (EBA) lithic assemblages from the southern Levant (e.g., Bar-Yosef et al 1977;Crowfoot-Payne 1983: 720-721;Rosen 1983;1997: 78-79;2013: 402;Levy & Alon 1985;Greenhut 1989;Marder et al 1995;Noy 1998;Fujii 1999;Bankirer & Marder 2003;Beit-Arieh et al 2003;van den Brink et al 2004;Blockman & Groman-Yeroslavski 2006;Rowan 2006;Milevski 2013). Typological differentiation in fan scrapers between these two periods was noted by Abe (2008) and will be discussed below.…”

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A techno-typological analysis of fan (tabular) scrapers from Ein Zippori, Israel

Zutovski

Yerkes

Agam

et al. 2016

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Abstract:Fan (or tabular) scrapers are a diagnostic tool type in Chalcolithic Ghassulian and Early Bronze Age lithic assemblages from the southern Levant. To date, only small numbers of fan scrapers have been reported from the Late Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah culture. In this paper we present a technotypological analysis of a fair sample of fan scrapers and fan scrapers spalls from Wadi Rabah and Early Bronze Age layers at Ein Zippori, Lower Galilee, Israel. Techno-typological similarities and differences of Wadi Rabah, Chalcolithic Ghassulian and Early Bronze Age fan scrapers from Ein Zippori and other sites in the region are presented, trends of change along time are noted, and an updated definition is proposed. Our results indicate that fan scrapers are highly efficient tools for accurate and prolonged animal butchering and hide working. The main advantage of fan scrapers is their mostly flat, thin morphology and large size that permits the creation of several relatively long working edges, various retouched angles (from sharp to abrupt), extensive resharpening, and a comfortable grasp. While fan scrapers were products of a local trajectory in Late Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah lithic industries at Ein Zippori, a standardized, off-site manufacturing of fan scrapers is evident during the Early Bronze Age.

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Section: Raw Materials and Procurement Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%