I Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Humanities the Chaim Rosenberg
i Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Humanities The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures Flint Procurement and Exploitation Strategies in the Late Lower Paleolithic Levant: the case of Acheulo-Yabrudian Qesem Cave Volume I: Main Text Thesis submitted for the degree "Doctor of Philosophy" by Aviad Agam Under the supervision of Prof. Ran Barkai, Prof. Avi Gopher and Prof. Lucy Wilson Submitted to the Senate of Tel-Aviv University June 2019 ii iii Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would like to thank my supervisors, Professor Ran Barkai, Professor Avi Gopher and Professor Lucy Wilson, for their endless support, advice and guidance, and for their constant willingness to help and encourage. It was a great pleasure and honour to work with you and learn from you. To my friends at the lab, Ella Assaf, Miki Ben-Dor, Chicho Cohen, Bar Efrati, Meir Finkel, Yafit Kedar, Yoni Parush, Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet, Natasha Solodenko, Flavia Venditti, Andrea Zupancich and Katia Zutovski, for the encouragement, for their friendship, and for all our conversations, about archaeology and prehistory, of course, but also about politics, food, music, "Game of Thrones", movies, food, "Married at First Sight", and, of course, food. I could not have asked for better lab partners. To Professor Chaim Benjamini, for greatly improving my understanding of the petrographic results, and for his patience and willingness to help. To Ofir Tirosh, Meir Finkel, Omri Yagel and Erez Ben-Yosef, for their help with the geochemical analysis. To Andrea Zupancich and Professor Cristina Lemorini, for their vital help in the Quina Scrapers analysis, and for showing me Rome.
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