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September 3, 2008
Neolithic Trade
Trade has had a significant place in the history of the Levant, indeed the history on humankind. Continuing excavations at Kfar Hahoresh in Nazareth hills of the lower Galilee provide evidence for trade in the Neolithic period.
Reports have placed a lot of emphasis on the phalloid figurines found at this Neolithic burial site but it was the next to last paragraph in the recent Telegraph article that really awakened my abnormal interests.
Exotic minerals found at the site include malachite from south of the Dead Sea, obsidian (natural volcanic glass) from central Anatolia, and a votive axe on serpentine from either Cyprus or northern Syria.
Regardless of whether people got around all the much in the Neolithic period some things did.
Posted by Duane Smith at September 3, 2008 1:08 PM | Read more on Archaeology |
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"Regardless of whether people got around all the much in the Neolithic period some things did."
Like prehistoric protowords, let's say.
Posted by: Glen Gordon at September 5, 2008 6:24 PM
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