Accession No

1994.28 B


Description

Three flint lithics, including one sickle blade, one notched flake, and one flake fragment. The sickle blade has a silica sheen along the cutting edge.


Place

Asia; West Asia; Palestine; West Bank; Jericho


Period

?Proto-Neolithic Mesolithic


Source

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


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1994.28 B; JPE 506.39b [Excavation no.]; EI II V SSi


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Flint


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Field collection)
Deposit: EI II V - SSi. Suggested to be intrusive Natufian lithics found in a Proto-Neolithic context.
Event Date
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: Lizzy Peneycad


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. p. 639, Fig. 263 (1, 3).

Event Date 1983
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


Context (Acquisition Details)
This group of material, separated from the main Jericho collection for study at the Institute of Archaeology in London, came into the museum in about 1991.
Event Date 1991
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Three, one sickle blade, one notched flake, and one flake fragment.
Event Date 3/2/1994
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Three flint lithics, including one sickle blade, one notched flake, and one flake fragment. The sickle blade has a silica sheen along the cutting edge.
Event Date 9/8/2022
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


FM:299213

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