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‘Atiqot 58 (2008)
ISBN 2948-040X
The Flint Assemblage of Karmeliya, Haifa
(pp. 1*–5*)
Hamoudi Khalaily and Flavia Sonntag
Keywords: Carmel, lithics, prehistory
The site is located on a steep slope, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The finds were retrieved from surface collection and from the excavation of a thick, dark sediment layer covering bedrock. A total of 4028 artifacts were found, most of which was waste material. The artifacts belong to two occupation phases: the surface finds point to a Mousterian knapping tradition; the finds from the excavated layer are of an industrial nature and the tool types are frequent in assemblages of the later stages of the Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods.