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Epipalaeolithic animal tending to Neolithic herding at Abu Hureyra, Syria (12,800–7,800 calBP): Deciphering dung spherulites [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2022
Excavations at Abu Hureyra, Syria, during the 1970s exposed a long sequence of occupation spanning the transition from hunting-and-gathering to agriculture. Dung spherulites preserved within curated flotation samples from Epipalaeolithic (ca.
Alexia Smith, Amy Oechsner, Peter Rowley-Conwy, Andrew M. T. Moore   +3 more
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The Zagros Epipalaeolithic revisited: New excavations and 14C dates from Palegawra cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2020
Palegawra cave, alongside its neighbouring Zarzi, has been an emblematic site of the Epipalaeolithic (Zarzian) cultural horizon in the NW Zagros of Southwest Asia ever since its first exploration in 1951 by Bruce Howe and Robert Braidwood in the context ...
Eleni Asouti, Douglas Baird, Ceren Kabukcu, Kate Swinson, Louise Martin, Aroa García-Suárez, Emma Jenkins, Kamal Rasheed   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Technological Change and Economy in the Epipalaeolithic: Assessing the Shift from Early to Middle Epipalaeolithic at Kharaneh IV [PDF]

Journal of Field Archaeology, 2018
Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherer communities in the Southern Levant exhibit numerous complex trends that suggest that the transition to the Neolithic was patchy and protracted. This paper explores the changing nature of occupation at the Epipalaeolithic site Kharaneh IV, Jordan, through an in-depth analysis of the lithic and faunal assemblages. Focusing
Danielle A Macdonald, Adam Allentuck, Lisa A Maher   +2 more
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The oldest Pottery Neolithic (PN) culture of northeastern Iran: First absolute dating from eastern Mazandaran plains. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
In the past, establishing a clear chronology for the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods in eastern Mazandaran proved challenging. A major obstacle had been the lack of radiocarbon dating.
Rahmat Abbasnejad Seresti, Xinying Zhou, Seyyed Kamal Asadi Ojaei   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Expansion of the known distribution of Asiatic mouflon (Ovis orientalis) in the Late Pleistocene of the Southern Levant [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2017
Wild sheep (Ovis orientalis) bones recovered from the Natufian site of Shubayqa 1 demonstrate a wider distribution of mouflon in the Late Pleistocene of the Southern Levant than previously known.
Lisa Yeomans, Louise Martin, Tobias Richter   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Versatile use of microliths as a technological advantage in the miniaturization of Late Pleistocene toolkits: The case study of Neve David, Israel. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2020
The miniaturization of stone tools, as reflected through the systematic production of bladelets and bladelet tools (microliths), characterized many industries of the Late Pleistocene, with the Levantine Epipalaeolithic serving as a well-studied example ...
Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, Hong Chen, Cheng Liu, Ron Shimelmitz, Reuven Yeshurun, Jiying Liu, Xia Yang, Dani Nadel   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Natufian Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the desert of northern Arabia [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The Fertile Crescent region, spanning from the upper Euphrates to the head of the Gulf of Aqaba, witnessed the earliest transition in the world from hunting and gathering wild foods to farming domesticates.
Ceri Shipton, Maria Guagnin, Faisal Al-Jibreen, Finn Stileman, Mathew Stewart, Simon J. Armitage, Nick Drake, Christian Reepmeyer, Paul S. Breeze, Frans van Buchem, Fahad Al-Tamimi, Muhammed Al-Shamry, Ahmed Al-Shammari, Jaber Al-Wadani, James Blinkhorn, Abdullah M. Alsharekh, Michael Petraglia   +16 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic as the pivotal transformation of human history

Documenta Praehistorica, 2018
The objective of this paper is to set the Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic transformation (ENT) within the truly long-term of human evolutionary history. The Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic transformation take us out of the world of Palaeolithic mobile foraging into
Trevor Watkins
doaj   +4 more sources

Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition [PDF]

Nature Communications
Dated archaeological sites are absent in northern Arabia between the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and 10,000 years ago (ka), signifying potential population abandonment prior to the onset of the Holocene humid period.
Maria Guagnin, Ceri Shipton, Faisal Al-Jibreen, Giacomo Losi, Amir Kalifi, Simon J. Armitage, Finn Stileman, Mathew Stewart, Fahad Al-Tamimi, Paul S. Breeze, Frans van Buchem, Nick Drake, Mohammed Al-Shamry, Ahmed Al-Shammari, Jaber Al-Wadani, Abdullah M. Alsharekh, Michael Petraglia   +16 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Twenty thousand-year-old huts at a hunter-gatherer settlement in eastern Jordan. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Ten thousand years before Neolithic farmers settled in permanent villages, hunter-gatherer groups of the Epipalaeolithic period (c. 22-11,600 cal BP) inhabited much of southwest Asia.
Lisa A Maher, Tobias Richter, Danielle Macdonald, Matthew D Jones, Louise Martin, Jay T Stock   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources