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Large-scale storage of grain surplus in the sixth millennium BC: the silos of Tel Tsaf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Yosef Garfınkel ,
David Ben-Shlomo  and
Tali Kuperman
Yosef Garfınkel
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905, Israel (Email: garfinkel@mscc.huji.ac.il)
David Ben-Shlomo
Affiliation:
Weitzmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel (Email: febensh@weizmann.ac.il)
Tali Kuperman
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel (Email: natakup@gmail.com)
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Abstract

The authors report and describe the remarkable grain silos discovered at Tel Tsaf in the southern Levant. These tall, white, barrel-shaped towers seem to mark the first appearance of monuments of demonstrative surplus.

Keywords

LevantChalcolithicgrainagriculturestoragesilos
Type
Research
Information
Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 320 , June 2009 , pp. 309 - 325
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2009

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