On early metallurgy and textile-production technologies in the southern Levant: a response to Langgut et al. (2016)

• Autores: Erez Ben-Yosef, Orit Shamir, Janet Levy
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 91, Nº 357, 2017, págs. 765-776
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In a recent article published in this journal, Langgut et al. (2016: 973) proposed five Late Chalcolithic (c. 4300�4000 BC) wooden shafts to be �the earliest Near Eastern wooden spinning implements�. Here we discuss these unique finds in light of their cultural and technological contexts, and suggest an alternative interpretation according to which these wooden shafts, one with a lead macehead lodged on its upper end, were components of the cultic practices of the southern Levantine Ghassulian culture.