Contents List

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• List of figures
• List of tables 

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 

• The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B in the Southern Levant
• The Lower Galilee
• Aims of Research 

CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY 

• Theoretical Background
• The Databases
• The Analyses

CHAPTER 3: THE PPNB OF THE LOWER GALILEE 

• Environmental Background
• The Studied Sites
• Categories I - IV

CHAPTER 4: ASPECTS OF INTRA-SITE VARIABILITY: KFAR HAHORESH AS AN EXAMPLE 

• The Site and its Stratigraphy
• Kfar HaHoresh PPNB Occupation
• The Early Phase
• The Middle Phase
• The Late Phase
• Discussion
• Placing the Kfar HaHoresh Sequence within PPNB Chronology
• The Lithic Assemblage
• General Characteristics of the Assemblage
• Assemblage Composition
• Spatial Distributions
• Summary and Conclusions

CHAPTER 5: THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE LOWER GALILEE: INTRA-SITE DATA AND INTER-SITE COMPARISONS

• Architectural Remains
• Inhumations
• Faunal Remains
• Botanical Remains
• Stone Tools
• Flint Assemblages
• Groundstone Tool Assemblages
• Other Technologies
• Pottery
• Bone Tools
• Special Finds
• Obsidian
• Figurines, Ornaments and Other Symbolic Items
• Summary and Conclusions 

CHAPTER 6: RESULTS OF SITE LOCATIONAL ANALYSES 

• Geographic and Topographic Location
• The Exploitation territories
• Exploitation Territories: Size and Location
• Exploitation Territories: Composition and Resources
• Viewshed Analysis 

CHAPTER 7: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 

• Sites of the Lower Galilee
• PPNB Subsistence and Economy
• Intra-Regional Interactions
• PPNB Settlement Patterns in the Lower Galilee and Diachronic Change
• The Lower Galilee within the Context of the Southern Levantine PPNB
• Summary and Conclusions 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

• Appendix 1: GIS Working Methodology
• Appendix 2: Site-Based Data-Tables
• Appendix 3a: Site Locational Analysis, Data-Tables
• Appendix 3b: Site Locational Analysis, Figures