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Neanderthals in the Levant
Author | : Donald O. Henry |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2003-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781441183095 |
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The volume traces the controversy that revolves around the bio-cultural relationships of Archaic (Neanderthal) and Modern humans at global and regional, Levantine scales. The focus of the book is on understanding the degree to which the behavioral organization of Archaic groups differed from Moderns. To this end, a case study is presented for a 44-70,000 year old, Middle Paleolithic occupation of a Jordanian rockshelter. The research, centering on the spatial analysis of artifacts, hearths and related data, reveals how the Archaic occupants of the shelter structured their activities and placed certain conceptual labels on different parts of the site. The structure of Tor Faraj is compared to site structures defined for modern foragers, in both ethnographic and archaeological contexts, to measure any differences in behavioral organization. The comparisons show very similar structures for Tor Faraj and its modern cohorts. The implications of this finding challenge prevailing views in the emergence of modern human controversy in which Archaic groups are thought to have had inferior cognition and less complex behavioral-social organization than modern foragers. And, it is generally thought that such behaviors only emerged after the appearance of the Upper Paleolithic, dated some 10-20,000 years later than the occupation of Tor Faraj.
Neanderthals in the Levant
Author | : Donald O. Henry |
Publsiher | : Continuum |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826458032 |
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The volume traces the controversy that revolves around the bio-cultural relationships of Archaic (Neanderthal) and Modern humans at global and regional, Levantine scales. The focus of the book is on understanding the degree to which the behavioral organization of Archaic groups differed from Moderns. To this end, a case study is presented for a 44-70,000 year old, Middle Paleolithic occupation of a Jordanian rockshelter. The research, centering on the spatial analysis of artifacts, hearths and related data, reveals how the Archaic occupants of the shelter structured their activities and placed certain conceptual labels on different parts of the site. The structure of Tor Faraj is compared to site structures defined for modern foragers, in both ethnographic and archaeological contexts, to measure any differences in behavioral organization. The comparisons show very similar structures for Tor Faraj and its modern cohorts. The implications of this finding challenge prevailing views in the emergence of modern human controversy in which Archaic groups are thought to have had inferior cognition and less complex behavioral-social organization than modern foragers. And, it is generally thought that such behaviors only emerged after the appearance of the Upper Paleolithic, dated some 10-20,000 years later than the occupation of Tor Faraj.
The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archeology of the Levant and Beyond
Author | : Yoshihiro Nishiaki,Takeru Akazawa |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2017-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789811068263 |
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This volume is a compilation of results from sessions of the Second International Conference on the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans, which took place between November 30 and December 6, 2014, in Hokkaido, Japan. Similar to the first conference held in 2012 in Tokyo, the 2014 conference (RNMH2014) aimed to compile the results of the latest multidisciplinary approaches investigating the issues surrounding the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans. The results of the sessions, supplemented by off-site contributions, center on the archeology of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of the Levant and beyond. The first part of this volume presents recent findings from the Levant, while the second part focuses on the neighboring regions, namely, the Caucasus, the Zagros, and South Asia. The 13 chapters in this volume highlight the distinct nature of the cultural occurrences during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods of the Levant, displaying a continuous development as well as a combination of lithic traditions that may have originated in different regions. This syncretism, which is an unusual occurrence in the regions discussed in this volume, reinforces the importance of the Levant as a region for interpreting the RNMH phenomenon in West Asia.
Neanderthals in the Levant
Author | : Donald O. Henry |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2003-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781441167194 |
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The volume traces the controversy that revolves around the bio-cultural relationships of Archaic (Neanderthal) and Modern humans at global and regional, Levantine scales. The focus of the book is on understanding the degree to which the behavioral organization of Archaic groups differed from Moderns. To this end, a case study is presented for a 44-70,000 year old, Middle Paleolithic occupation of a Jordanian rockshelter. The research, centering on the spatial analysis of artifacts, hearths and related data, reveals how the Archaic occupants of the shelter structured their activities and placed certain conceptual labels on different parts of the site. The structure of Tor Faraj is compared to site structures defined for modern foragers, in both ethnographic and archaeological contexts, to measure any differences in behavioral organization. The comparisons show very similar structures for Tor Faraj and its modern cohorts. The implications of this finding challenge prevailing views in the emergence of modern human controversy in which Archaic groups are thought to have had inferior cognition and less complex behavioral-social organization than modern foragers. And, it is generally thought that such behaviors only emerged after the appearance of the Upper Paleolithic, dated some 10-20,000 years later than the occupation of Tor Faraj.
The Last Neanderthal
Author | : Ian Tattersall |
Publsiher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015031847851 |
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Marshals the best available evidence to unravel the mysteries of the Neanderthals -- who they were, how they lived, how they succeeded for so long, and -- the most intriguing question -- what happened to them.
Quaternary of the Levant
Author | : Yehouda Enzel,Ofer Bar-Yosef |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 789 |
Release | : 2017-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107090460 |
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Over eighty contributions from leading researchers review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution in the Levant.
South eastern Mediterranean Peoples Between 130 000 and 10 000 Years Ago
Author | : Elena A. A. Garcea |
Publsiher | : Oxbow Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : NWU:35556040948192 |
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The Upper Pleistocene era encompassed a period of dramatic cultural developments in the south-eastern Mediterranean basin. This book highlights and synthesizes the latest research and current scientific debate on the archaeology of this time period in North Africa and the Near East. Recent archaeological research in North Africa has meant this region now plays a decisive role in scientific debate. After decades of neglect, the archaeological record from North Africa has now been seen to parallel in significance that of the Near East. This book offers an opportunity to observe the Afro-Asian side of the Mediterranean basin as an uninterrupted land, as it was for its Upper Pleistocene inhabitants. Areas of focus include the Out-of-Africa movement of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) into the Levant and the transition from the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age to the Upper Palaeolithic/Later Stone Age, during which a change of lifestyle took place, based on plant cultivation and animal husbandry. These topics are of crucial interest to anyone studying human evolution, prehistoric archaeology, anthropology, and palaeo-environmental studies. This volume brings together data as well as perspectives from various scholars, often separated by their areas of interest and location. This volume is complementary to The Mediterranean from 50,000 to 25,000 BP: Turning Points and New Directions edited by M. Camps and C. Szmidt (Oxbow Books, 2009).
Archaeological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans
Author | : Daniel Kaufman |
Publsiher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780897895781 |
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Through an analysis of archaeological data from the Levant, this text argues that by at least 100,000 years ago people of the Middle Paleolithic period, usually regarded as being somewhat less than human were, on the contrary, fully modern in terms of their behavioural and cultural systems.