Synopsis "Gilgal (American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph)"
The Gilgal Neolithic sites are among the first sites where cultivation emerged in the Levant. This book provides the full report of the late Tamar Noy's excavations including stratigraphy, architecture, artifacts, art objects, faunal, and botanical collections.Table of Contents1. Region and the History of the Investigations at the Gilgal sites (O. Bar-Yosef, A. N. Goring-Morris, and A. Gopher) 2. Stratigraphy and Architecture of Gilgal I (O. Bar-Yosef, A. Gopher, A. N. Goring-Morris and S. Kozlowski) 3. Deep Trench in Gilgal I (S. Kozlowski) 4. Radiocarbon Chronology of the Gilgal Sites (E. Boaretto, O. Bar-Yosef, A. Gopher, A. N. Goring-Morris and S. Kozlowski) 5. Lithic Assemblage of Gilgal I (D . Dag, I. Groman-Yaroslavski , A. Gopher, and A. N. Goring-Morris) 6. Basket of Artifacts from House 11 (T. Noy and S. Kozlowski) 7. Assemblages of Gilgal III and Gilgal IV (I. Groman-Yaroslavski and A. Gopher) 8. Late Natufian Assemblage of Gilgal II (D. Dag and A. N. Goring-Morris) 9. Food Processing Tools and Other Groundstone Implements from Gilgal I and Gilgal III (D. Rosenberg and A. Gopher) 10. Bone Tools from the Gilgal sites (A. Belfer-Cohen) 11. "It's Magic!" ― Artistic and Symbolic Material Manifestations from the Gilgal sites (D. Hershman and A. Belfer-Cohen) 12. Technology of the Fired Clay Objects from Gilgal I (Y. Goren and R. Biton) 13. Stone Beads of the Gilgal Sites (D. E. Bar-Yosef Mayer) 14. Shell Assemblages of the Gilgal Sites (D. E. Bar-Yosef Mayer) 15. Basketry Finds from Gilgal (T. Schick) 16. Vegetal Subsistence of Gilgal I as Reflected in the Assemblage of House 11 (M. E. Kislev, A. Hartmann and T. Noy) 17. Wood Remains from the Gilgal Sites (N. Liphschitz) 18. Fauna from the Sites of Gilgal I, II and III (L. Kolska Horowitz, T. Simmons, O. Lernau, and E. Tchernov) 19. Gilgal and Its Place Among Early Neolithic Sites in the Levant (O. Bar-Yosef, A. N. Goring-Morris, A. Gopher, and S. Kozlowski)
