The Prehistory of the Levant
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The Levant was a critical area in the development of humankind and knowledge of its prehistory and geoarchaeology are essential for understanding how our ancestors evolved biologically and culturally. This collection brings together 22 previously published articles on the Pleistocene and early Holocene occupation of the region in a convenient sourcebook that will be useful to students and professionals searching for articles dealing with a variety of topics and time periods.
The Levant was a critical area in the development of humankind and knowledge of its prehistory and geoarchaeology are essential for understanding how our ancestors evolved biologically and culturally. This collection brings together 22 previously published articles on the Pleistocene and early Holocene occupation of the region in a convenient sourcebook that will be useful to students and professionals searching for articles dealing with a variety of topics and time periods.
The Levant was a critical area in the development of humankind and knowledge of its prehistory and geoarchaeology are essential for understanding how our ancestors evolved biologically and culturally. This collection brings together 22 previously published articles on the Pleistocene and early Holocene occupation of the region in a convenient sourcebook that will be useful to students and professionals searching for articles dealing with a variety of topics and time periods.
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Language
English
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Dordrecht
Netherlands
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Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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978-0-306-46078-4 (9780306460784)
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I: Past Environments. 1. The Afro-Arabian component in the Levantine Mammalian fauna - A short biogeographical review; E. Tchernov. 2. Interpreting Late Quaternary continental sequences in Israel; P. Goldberg. 3. The Late Quaternary pollen record of the Near East; U. Baruch. II: Lower Paleolithic Period. 4. The Lower Paleolithic of the Near East; O. Bar-Yosef. 5. An Acheulean biface assemblage from Gesher Banot Yakov, Israel: Indications of African influence; N. Goren-Inbar, I. Saragusti. 6. The Late Acheulean knapping floor at C-Spring, Azraq basin, Joran; L. Copeland. 7. The Lower Paleolithic site Evron-Quarry in western Galilee; A. Ronen. III: Middle Paleolithic Period. 8. The role of Western Asia in Modern Human origins; O. Bar-Yosef. 9. Modeling the production of elongated blanks from the Early Levantine Mousterian at Rosh Ein Mor; A.E. Marks, K. Monigal. 10. Prehistoric cultural ecology in southern Jordan; D.O. Henry. IV: Upper Paleolithic Period. 11. The early Upper Paleolithic: The view from the Levant; A.E. Marks. 12. The foragers of the Upper Paleolithic Period; I. Gilead. 13. The Upper Paleolithic of the Wadi Feiran, southern Sinai; J.L. Phillips. V: Epi-Paleolithic Period. 14. Late Quaternary Hunter-gatherer complexes in the Levant between 20,000 and 10,000 BP; B. Byrd. 15. New subsistence data and human remains from the earliest Levantine Epipaleolithic; D. Nadel, I. Heshkovitz. 16. The Natufian Culture in the Levant; A. Belfer-Cohen. 17. The Harifian of the southern Levant; N. Goring-Morris. 18. The Natufian conference: Discussion; C. Perles, J.L. Philips. VI: Neolithic Period. 19. From foraging to farming in the Mediterranean Levant; O. Bar-Yosef. 20. Agriculture in the Near East in the VIIth millennium BC; M.E. Kislev. 21. The emergence of crop cultivation and caprine herding in the 'marginal zone' of the southern Levant; A. Garrard, et al. 22. Early pottery-bearing groups in Israel-the Pottery Neolithic Period; A. Gopher. VII: Levantine Prehistory: A Look into the Future; J.L. Phillips, O. Bar-Yosef.