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

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ANTIQUITY
Volume 83, Issue 320, Pages 309-325

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CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00098458

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Levant; Chalcolithic; grain; agriculture; storage; silos

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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.

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