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The stony Nature of the stone tools and new archaeological discovery in the suthern desert nearby Nugrat Al- Salman , Samwa, South west Iraq.
Author(s) -
Aqeel A. Al-Zubaidi,
Munther Ali Abdel malik
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
al-ādāb
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2706-9931
pISSN - 1994-473X
DOI - 10.31973/aj.v1i126.59
Subject(s) - archaeology , cave , stone age , natural (archaeology) , geology , natural stone , middle stone age , geography , materials science , composite material
Ancient human in early stages of his life depended on stone (Kottak, 2006). He used some stone made tools to overcome the natural environment and prevention from any possible danger. In addition to provide his daily needs (Mohammed 2005). This use developed and passed many stages of stony ages like the old stony age and the Middle stony age and the modern stony age. He began to use stone in building and in preparing his stony tools like, hummer, grinder, mill and others. Among the most important stones used are the Granite, Basalt, Nice, limestone, sand stone, and Sawan stone. Some stony tools were found in some archaeological sites (Braidwood and Howe, 1972) like Cave Shanidar, Solecki- 1953, Al ani-1986) and Kareem shahr  (Howe 1983) and Tel Alnisr , the archaeological, nearby Alrutba city western Iraq (Alzubaidi 2012).   In Egypt, stone was used in building the temples and cemeteries like Granite stone, Limestone, Dolostone, marble, sandstone, gypsum and bazalt (Dollinger 2000). Types of building stones differ from place to another depending on the available stones in the nearby natural environment. (Wahby, 2004). Limestone is one of the sedimentary stones composed of calcium carbonate and the crystalline system (Hexagonal) and dissolves in dilute Hyloric acid; it has different colors (Dear et al- 1969)

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