The Early Bronze Age Blade Workshop at Titriş Höyük: Lithic Specialization in an Urban Context

Abstract

In recent years the analysis of Bronze and Iron Age chipped stone industries in the Near East has contributed new perspectives to our understanding of early complex civilizations.1 Beyond the description of a previously little studied general technology, with all that such a new documentation implies concerning how ancient people solved the problems of daily life, the potentials of the new data set touch on many other subjects. These include chronologies (e.g.