Pottery mark as farm silo8/8/2023 Boreal Bounty Farm (BBF) is a small family run market garden 7 miles NW of Two. The fact that these are proto-historic sites, predating the rise of monotheistic religions in the Near East, could in fact serve as an advantage in this region, since this can bypass current political and ideological disagreements and conflicts in the Middle East which are national or religion based. Image for Augustynartworks Pottery Studio. Possible solutions for exposure to the public and heritage management and education will be discussed. The sites are currently not open for the touristic public. In addition to having the challenges noted above these sites are also located in modern agricultural areas, further, impeding their preservation. Both sites are relatively large and illustrate a sophisticated and complex material culture, architecture and site planning. A case study of the Jordan Valley in Israel will be inspected with two major sites: Sha'ar Hagolan of the Late Neolithic period, and Tel Tsaf of the Middle Chalcolithic period. In terms of public and national heritage and education these sites are also difficult to be linked to current cultures and narratives of existing communities. Furthermore, it is difficult to preserve and reconstruct these sites. These sites are usually small and do not have well preserved or impressive architecture. 8,000-3,000 BCE Calibrated) create a special challenge for heritage management and education. The consistency of mudbrick-production during all phases of the occupation at Tel Tsaf and the absence of multiple recipes implies that a shared production and technological know-how was maintained for at least 500 years at the site. This indicates that a single locally-sourced raw material was used and that recycling of old decayed mudbricks was likely practiced. The results of our study suggest that while we can identify morpho-metric variability between bricks and walls, by and large, a uniform composition characterized the tested assemblages without any temporal or spatial variability. These demonstrate consistency in three of the four measured variables: magnetic susceptibility, organic content and calcium carbonate equivalent. The present paper discusses some of the mud-brick features at Tel Tsaf and their characteristics and offers a comprehensive analytical study of the mudbricks from multiple contexts and phases. The 7,200 year old (cal BP) site of Tel Tsaf, located in the Jordan Valley, is distinguished by outstanding preservation of mudbrick architecture, which enables us to delve into various issues related to mudbrick technology, construction and preservation. However, at many of the sites where mudbrick remains were noted, their preservation was poor, so investigation of their production and the related construction techniques in antiquity was precluded. The history of mudbrick production and construction in the southern Levant may be dated as far back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A.
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