This paper presents a new techno-typological analysis of a sample of small flakes that were produced through recycling from discarded blanks at the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age site of Ein-Zippori, Lower Galilee, Israel. This study shows that the systematic production of small flakes from previously discarded blanks was not related to a scarcity in raw materials, but rather to specific decisions concerning the types of tools needed to complete necessary tasks. These results are supported by use-wear analysis noted briefly here and presented in more detail in a separate paper. The results indicate that recycling was a significant lithic production trajectory during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Recycling also contributes to the variability in lithic assemblages from those cultural periods.

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新石器时代和青铜时代的回收：以色列Ein-Zippori的火石回收证据

本文介绍了一种新的技术形态学分析，该样品是通过对以色列下加利利的Ein-Zippori的新石器时代晚期和青铜时代晚期的废弃坯料进行回收利用而产生的小薄片样品的分析。这项研究表明，从以前丢弃的坯料中有系统地生产小薄片与原料的短缺无关，而与完成必要任务所需的工具类型有关的具体决定有关。这些结果得到了本文简要指出的使用磨损分析的支持，并在另一篇论文中进行了详细介绍。结果表明，在新石器时代晚期和青铜时代初期，回收是一条重要的石器生产轨迹。回收还导致了这些文化时期石器时代的多样性。