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The precise characterization of contact, trade, and diffusion is an important aspect of any reconstruction of past cultures. The analysis of shared traits of material culture may provide significant information beyond the mere establishment of contact. In particular, quantitative analyses of distribution patterns of such traits are an especially powerful tool for defining and differentiating various types of trade and contact (e.g., Earle and Ericson 1977; Sabloff and Lamberg-Karlovsky 1975). Recent collections of flint implements in Israel provided data for quantitative analyses of lithic assemblages that permit better understanding of the nature of flint exchange in the 4th and 3rd millennia B.C. The following explicit characterization of the fan-scraper trade derives almost exclusively from such quantified studies.'1 Description Tabular scrapers, often referred to in the literature as fan-scrapers, are large scraper/knives, manufactured on flat cortical flakes that vary considerably in size and shape. The classic types are oval and fan-shaped (e.g., Neuville 1930, 1934a, b); they are typically associated with Chalcolithic (e.g.
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- Author
- Steven A. Rosen
- Published
- 1983
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)