Utilisation du tribulum au début du IIIe millénaire : des lames « cananéennes » lustrées à Kutan (Ninive V) dans la région de Mossoul, Iraq
1994; Volume: 20; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3406/paleo.1994.962
ISSN1957-701X
AutoresPatricia C. Anderson, Marie‐Louise Inizan,
ResumoThe technological and functional characteristics of fragmented « Canaanean-type » blades with gloss have been studied using two methods. Microwear traces, identified on 18 fragments (of 1 45 found) in comparison with analysis of flint from ethnographic threshing sledges (tribulum), have shown that the tribulum was used in the Ninivite V village of Kutan (Iraq) in the beginning of the third millennium B.C. This discovery widens the range of functional interpretations of glossed tools, and analysis of this original blade débitage technique more precisely describes the term « Canaanean » as well as the techno-economic system to which it was related. These blades were produced using a metal punch or by pressure, using a lever. At Kutan, there was a local, « low technical investment » economy, co-existing with a standardized production of these « Canaanean » blade fragments, which does not appear to be local. The latter production is characterised by a high level of mastery of knapping techniques, and also implies, by the dimensions of its products (blades can be up to 25 cm), that the raw material is of high quality, abundant and large. This imported blade economy appears to be related to use of blanks for agricultural implements (sickles, followed by re-use in threshing sledges). Key-words : Kutan, tribulum, Canaanean blades, microwear analysis.
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