Quaternary Of The Levant
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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.
Natufian Foragers in the Levant
Author | : Ofer Bar-Yosef,François R. Valla |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 717 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781789201574 |
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This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.
Becoming Neolithic
Author | : Trevor Watkins |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2023-12-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781351069267 |
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Becoming Neolithic examines the revolutionary transformation of human life that was taking place around 12,000 years ago in parts of southwest Asia. Hunter-gatherer communities were building the first permanent settlements, creating public monuments and symbolic imagery, and beginning to cultivate crops and manage animals. These communities changed the tempo of cultural, social, technological and economic innovation. Trevor Watkins sets the story of becoming Neolithic in the context of contemporary cultural evolutionary theory. There have been 70 years of international inter-disciplinary research in the field and in the laboratory. Stage by stage, he unfolds an up-to-date understanding of the archaeology, the environmental and climatic evidence and the research on the slow domestication of plants and animals. Turning to the latest theoretical work on cultural evolution and cultural niche construction, he shows why the transformation accomplished in the Neolithic began to accelerate the scale and tempo of human history. Everything that followed the Neolithic, up to our own times, has happened in a different way from the tens of thousands of years of human evolution that preceded it. This well-documented account offers a useful synthesis for students of prehistoric archaeology and anyone with an interest in our prehistoric roots. This new narrative of the first rapid transformation in human evolution is also informative to those interested in cultural evolutionary theory.
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.
Landscapes and Landforms of Israel
Author | : Amos Frumkin |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783031447648 |
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Palaeolandscapes in Archaeology
Author | : Mike T. Carson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2021-11-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781000484823 |
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What can we learn about the ancient landscapes of our world, and how can those lessons improve our future in the landscapes that we all inhabit? Those questions are addressed in this book, through a practical framework of concepts and methods, combined with detailed case studies around the world. The chapters explore the range of physical and social attributes that have shaped and re-shaped our landscapes through time. International authors contributed the latest results of investigating ancient landscapes (or "palaeolandscapes") in diverse settings of tropical forests, deserts, river deltas, remote islands, coastal zones, and continental interiors. The case studies embrace a liberal approach of combining archaeological evidence with other avenues of research in earth sciences, biology, and social relations. Individually and in concert, the chapters offer new perspectives on what the world’s palaeolandscapes looked like, how people lived in these places, and how communities have engaged with long-term change in their natural and cultural environments though successive centuries and millennia. The lessons are paramount for building responsible strategies and policies today and into the future, noting that many of these issues from the past have gained more urgency today. This book reaches across archaeology, ecology, geography, and broader studies of human-environment relations that will appeal to general readers. Specialists and students in these fields will find extra value in the primary datasets and in the new ideas and perspectives. Furthermore, this book provides unique examples from the past, toward understanding the workings of sustainable landscape systems.
The Quaternary of Israel
Author | : Aharon Horowitz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822010952620 |
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The Quaternary of Israel.
An Introduction to the Geology of Jordan
Author | : Ikhlas Alhejoj,Elias Salameh |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2023-08-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781527528147 |
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Jordan can be considered to be an outdoor natural geological museum, exhibiting rocks of the Precambrian age up to the present Holocene time. Within its rocks are imprinted fossils, recrystallized minerals, geological structures, ancient human remains, and other geological features, which contribute to our understanding of global geology. This book offers simple, up-to-date findings, descriptions, and discussions with clear illustrations to help students and researchers comprehend the geology of Jordan. The book will also allow non-geologists to gain insight into Jordan’s geological set-up.