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Plant gathering and people-environment interactions at Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV, Jordan [PDF]
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2021 This paper presents the first archaeobotanical results on plant macroremains other than charcoal from the Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic site of Kharaneh IV in the Azraq basin, one of the largest Epipalaeolithic sites in the southern Levant and one of ...
Matthew Jones, Alexandra Livarda
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The problem of ‘Epipalaeolithic’ in the Carpathian Basin
Communicationes Archaeologicae HungariaeIn the 1950s, a few hundred knapped stone artefacts were found at the Hont-Várhegy site during field surveys. The characteristics of the finds led Miklós Gábori to conclude that the assemblage represents the ‘Epipalaeolithic’ and the survival of the ...
Kristóf István Szegedi +2 more
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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
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From the Epipalaeolithic into the earliest Neolithic (PPNA) in the South Levant
Documenta Praehistorica, 2020 This paper examines the nature of initial neolithisation indications during the terminal Pleistocene and earliest Holocene in the Southern Levant. This interval corresponds to a period of significant and geographically variable environmental changes in ...
Anna Belfer-Cohen, Nigel Goring-Morris
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High Resolution AMS Dates from Shubayqa 1, northeast Jordan Reveal Complex Origins of Late Epipalaeolithic Natufian in the Levant. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2017 The Late Epipalaeolithic Natufian (~14,600 − 11,500 cal BP) is a key period in the prehistory of southwest Asia. Often described as a complex hunting and gathering society with increased sedentism, intensive plant exploitation and associated with an ...
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Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsDated 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 +16 more
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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 +5 more
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Lime plaster cover of the dead 12,000 years ago – new evidence for the origins of lime plaster technology [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019 The production of lime plaster is especially important as a technological development in human prehistory as it requires advanced knowledge and skills to transform rocks to a plastic yet durable material.
David E. Friesem +3 more
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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.
Danielle A Macdonald +2 more
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Journal of Field Archaeology, 2019 The appearance of rich and diverse funerary practices is one of the hallmarks of the Late Epipalaeolithic Natufian in the Levant. Numerous burials at a number of sites excavated mostly in the Mediterranean zone of the southern Levant have fed into the ...
Tobias Richter +2 more
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