- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone tool beige in colour, end scraper. [FB 06/01/2015]
- Geographical reference
- Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) Plain of Genesareth Mugharet El Emireh
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Middle Palaeolithic
- Date collected
- 1925
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1925
- Materials and processes
- Material Flint Stone, Process Flaked
- Dimensions
- Width: max 63 mm, Length: max 104 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1925.48.11
- Research and responses
According to Dorothy Garrod, the vast majority of the the el-Emireh collection was deposited in the Palestine Museum of Archaeology: 'of the 706 traceable specimens which make up the collection form the undisturbed area of Emireh, 620 are in the Palestine Museum, and the remainder are distributed between the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford, the Manchester University Museum, and the Glasgow University Museum'; see page 142 in 'The Mugharet el-Emireh in Lower Galilee: Type-Station of the Emrian Industry', by D. A. E. Garrord, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 85, nos 1/2 (1955), pp. 141–62. [AS 30/07/2010; JC 5 1 2015]
- Associated publications
- See: Researches in Prehistoric Galilee, 1925-1926, by Francis Adrian Joseph Turville-Petre, Dorothea M. A. Bate, Charlotte Baynes, and Arthur Keith, (London: The Council of the [British] School [of Archaeology in Jerusalem], 1927); 'The Mugharet el-Emireh in Lower Galilee: Type-Station of the Emrian Industry', by D. A. E. Garrord, in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 85, nos 1/2 (1955), pp. 141–62. [AS 04/01/2010; JC 5 1 2015]
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