grinding stones, mirrored pre-historic ages post Chalcolithic/Copper Age and the start of Early Bronze Age I (4500-3150 BCE), marking the very end of hunting and gathering around summer desert lakes and the development of tribal chiefdoms and husbandry based economy. The traditional Bedouin dwellings and livelihood and tools, e.g. The flour is collected on the piece of cloth under the grinding stones. The upper grinding stone is turned against the lower/base stone using a wooden handle fixed in a side-hole in the upper stone. Photograph taken in the oasis of Wadi Feiran, where there is an abundant palm grove to supply material/palm leaves to build a similar hut(?), showing a Bedouin woman grinding flour with locally supplied grinding stones, where the wheat seeds are fed through the upper hole. On negative: 1521 Native Hut in Wady Hebran (crossed out). Ĭaption on negative: Native hut made of palm branches. Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides. Native hut made of palm branchesĪmerican Colony (Jerusalem). To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran.
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