Tell Kosak Shamali: The Archaeological

The four seasons of excavation at Tell Kosak Shamali yielded around 33,000 flaked stone artefacts from the Chalcolithic period. These discoveries have allowed archaeologists their first opportunity to study lithic manufacturing activities and their development over this period in the Upper Euphrates valley, Syria. The tools are described and documented within their chronological context, and their functional and morphological properties discussed. There are also chapters devoted to bone objects and small finds, as well as some archaeobotanical and archaeozoological observations. This book is a companion to Volume I, which documents the Chalcolithic architecture and earlier prehistoric remains.

Preface
Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Plates
Geomorphological and environmental settings of Tell Kosak Shamali, Syria
Cartographic representation and data analyses using digital elevation models
The socio-historical setting of Kosak Shamali: A field report from a modern village on the Euphrates, Syria
Excavations in Sector A of Tell Kosak Shamali: The stratigraphy and architectures
The stratigraphy and architectures of Sector B of Tell Kosak Shamali
Radiocarbon dates and the absolute chronology of Tell Kosak Shamali
Methods of radiocarbon dating at Tell Kosak Shamali
The Palaeolithic artifacts from Tell Kosak Shamali
The Neolithic pottery from Tell Kosak Shamali
The Neolithic flaked stone artifacts from Tell Kosak Shamali
The other Neolithic finds from Tell Kosak Shamali
Conclusions
Arabic summary
Chronological developments of the Chalcolithic flaked stone industries at Tell Kosak Shamali	p. 15
Element contents determined by ICP-AES and ICP-MS at Grenoble on nine obsidian artifacts from Tell Kosak Shamali: Results and inferences on provenance	p. 113
Functional and morphological observations on the Chalcolithic grinding stones from Tell Kosak Shamali	p. 121
The Chalcolithic bone industry of Tell Kosak Shamali	p. 185
The Chalcolithic small finds from Tell Kosak Shamali: Various aspects of the village activity	p. 213
Analytical results of three archaeological objects from Post-Ubaid to Uruk levels of Tell Kosak Shamali	p. 260
Chalcolithic carbonised cereals from Ubaid burnt storage structures at Tell Kosak Shamali	p. 267
Charcoal analysis from Tell Kosak Shamali	p. 271
Preliminary analysis of the faunal remains from Tell Kosak Shamali (Syria): Squares AD5, AE5, AF5, BD6 and BE6	p. 273
The bituminous mixtures of Tell Kosak Shamali on the Upper Euphrates (Syria) from the Early Ubaid to the Post-Ubaid: Composition of mixtures and origin of bitumen	p. 283
Summary of the papers in Volume II	p. 307
Arabic summary	p. 320
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Tell Kosak Shamali: The Archaeological Investigations on the Upper Euphrates, Syria. Chalcolithic Technology and Subsistence

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