ABSTRACT
Following Rosen (1997a: 106–7) we can divide the local flint industries of the EB into three main systems: the sickle blade industry, the tabular scraper industry and the ad-hoc industries. Since the third industry actually encompasses the production of a number of tool types, very localized and characteristic of each site, and their exchange is very difficult to follow, it is disregarded in this study, with the exception of perforators that seem to have been involved in the workshops of beads and other materials (e.g. Rosen 1997c). Other tools such as Bet Shean points (Bankirer 1999) provide very few data to delineate a distribution network. A fourth system, although non-Canaanite in origin, consists of Egyptian tools appearing during the EB I (e.g. Yeivin 1976; Rosen 1988a). It included both imported tools and probable blades manufactured in Canaan with Egyptian technology, though the cores of these blades are very few (Rosen 1997a: 108)
