Hacinebi Excavations:

Selected Local Late Chalcolithic Artifacts

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For discussion of Local Late Chalcolithic material culture at Hacinebi, see Stein et al 1998, Pearce 2000, and Pittman 1999 on the publications page of this website,
and the preliminary reports from the 1992-1997 field seasons.

Local Late Chalcolithic seal impressed artifacts and eye idols are illustrated in greater detail on separate pages of this website.

Vegetal tempered, hand-made Hammerhead bowl HN4653 Op. 6 locus 114. Hammerhead bowls and casseroles are the two most common and diagnostic Local Late Chalcolithic ceramic forms. They are chronologically and technologically related to the Amuq F assemblage.
Vegetal tempered, hand-made Casserole cooking pot.Op.5 locus 53. For general discussion of the Local Late Chalcolithic ceramics see Pearce 2000.
Unbaked clay animal figurines. HN3394.1-3. Op. 6 locus 84.

Rectangular stone stamp seal. HN15690 Op. 4 locus 276 (Pittman 2000)

Open faced ceramic molds for casting axe-shaped copper ingots (Stein and Misir 1996:fig.9)
Eye idols
Infant jar burial. Op. 17 locus 52 (Stein, Edens, et al. 1996:96). Two silver rings and one copper ring from infant jar burial. HN8361.01-03. Op. 17 locus 52 (Stein, Edens, et al. 1996:96). .
Worked cowrie shell ornaments:
(L) HN5481 Op. 5 locus 31.
(R) HN5748 Op. 5 locus 107
Chlorite pendant HN928 Op. 2 locus 29 (Stein and Misir 1994:fig. 9).

 


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Gil J. Stein
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