Lodian culture

Thomas Levy later coined the term Lodian, shifting the type site to that of Lod, first excavated by Jacob Kaplan in the 1950s.

They kept domestic animals, including sheep, goats, cattle and pigs, and also fished and hunted wild gazelle.

It is assumed that they also grew the typical Neolithic crops, e.g. cereals and legumes, but no archaeobotanical evidence has been recovered from Lodian sites to confirm this.

[1] Its lithic industry is dominated by flake tools, including several characteristic types of arrowheads (Haparsa, Nizzanim, and Herzlia points) and sickle blades.

One distinctive type of flint tool that is unique to the Lodian culture is a rectangular sickle, shaped with pressure flaking.