Accession No

1987.1018.6


Description

Four worked flints including flakes.


Place

Asia; West Asia; Palestine; West Bank; Jericho


Period

?Mesolithic ?Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ?Pre-Pottery Neolithic B ?Proto-Urban ?Bronze Age


Source

British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem [donor]; Kenyon, Kathleen [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1987.1018.6; JPE 523.4 [Excavation no.]; JPE 503.4 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Flint; Chert; Obsidian


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1987.1018[.1-6]: 'Specimens of flint and obsidian.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Deposit: Square E I II V - Not phased
Event Date 1952
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Jericho, excavated by Kathleen Kenyon, 1952-1958. See archive for field notebooks, distribution lists, etc. (BR6/3/1/1 – BR6/3/1/8).
Event Date 1952
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Context (References)
Payne, J.C. (1983). ‘Appendix C: The Flint Industries of Jericho’. In Kenyon, K.M. and Holland, T.A. Excavations at Jericho, Vol. V: The Pottery Phases of the Tell and Others Finds. London: The British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.
Event Date 1983
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Description (Physical description)
E 253.4 - 4 objects: including flakes.
Event Date 6/11/2001
Author: Lily Stancliffe


Context (CMS Context)
In August 2015, Prof. Stuart Campbell and Dr Elizabeth Healey, University of Manchester, tested part of this idno using a portable XRF as part of a programme of obsidian source analysis of Middle Eastern material. The envelope containing the tested piece(s) of obsidian has been marked 'XRF Tested 2015'.
Event Date 23/3/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn


Description (Physical description)
Four worked flints including flakes.
Event Date 28/7/2022
Author: Lily Stancliffe


FM:299065

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