Large-scale storage of grain surplus in the sixth millennium BC: The silos of Tel Tsaf

Yosef Garfinkel; David Ben-Shlomo; Tali Kuperman

doi:10.1017/S0003598X00098458

Large-scale storage of grain surplus in the sixth millennium BC: The silos of Tel Tsaf

Yosef Garfinkel, David Ben-Shlomo, Tali Kuperman

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The authors report and describe the remarkable grain silos discovered at Tel Tsaf in the southern Levant. These tall, white, barrel-shaped towers seem to mark the first appearance of monuments of demonstrative surplus.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	309-325
Number of pages	17
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	83
Issue number	320
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00098458
State	Published - Jun 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Agriculture
Chalcolithic
Grain
Levant
Silos
Storage

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