Mitekufat Haeven

JOURNAL OF THEISRAEL PREHISTORIC

SOCIETYvol. 41

Editor:STEVEN A. ROSEN

THE ISRAEL PREHISTORIC SOCIETY2011

Supported by the Irene-Levi Sala CARE Foundation

ISSN: 0334-3839

© All rights reserved to theIsrael Prehistoric Society

Typesetting: Sefi Graphics Design, Beer ShevaPrinted by Print Unit Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Table of Contents

Carlos Cordova, April Nowell, Michael Bisson, Christopher Amesand Regina DeWitt Geomorphological and soil stratigraphic patterns associated with the Middle Paleolithic on the Madaba Plateau, Jordan: The case of the Ma’in Site Complex 5

Danny Rosenberg and Dani Nadel Characterization and distribution of bedrock features at Ornit Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel 37

Liora Kolska Horwitz, Steven A. Rosen and Fanny Bocquentin A Late Neolithic Equid Offering from the Mortuary-Cult Site of Ramat Saharonim in the Central Negev 71

Michael Freikman Pillar Figures of the Golan Chalcolithic: Evidence of Ritual Destruction 83

Shay Bar, Guy Bar-Oz, Dror Ben-Yosef, Noa Raban-Gerstel and Haim Winter Sheikh Diab 2 – An Early Bronze Age I Hamlet in the Jordan Valley 95

Book ReviewIanir Milevski, 2011. Early Bronze Age Goods Exchange in the SouthernLevant: A Marxist PerspectiveReviewed by Yuval Yekutieli 155

Notes for Authors 159

Hebrew Abstracts 5*