Abstract:

The article discusses the results of the analysis of the assemblage that came from a test excavation conducted by Jean Perrot in 1962 at the site of Abu Zureiq, located in the vicinity of Kibbutz Hazorea on the western boundary of the Jezreel Valley in Israel. The site is attributed to the Wadi Rabah culture of the seventh millenium BP, which was coined by J. Kaplan in 1958 in his published articles on his excavations. Results show that the Abu Zureiq assemblage represents all known aspects of material culture of the Wadi Rabah. Despite the limited excavation area, the assemblage represents a wide range of tasks concentrated in a single locality. These include storage and processing of plant and animal food, lithic tool production and use and other economic and symbolic activities.

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