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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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A grid-like incised pattern inside a Natufian bedrock mortar, Raqefet Cave, Israel
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016 [Report] Bedrock features are a hallmark of the Natufian (ca. 15,000-11,500 cal BP) in the southern Levant and beyond and they include a large variety of types, from deep variants to shallow ones and from narrow mortars to wide basins.
Dani Nadel, Danny Rosenberg
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When half is more than the whole: Wheat domestication syndrome reconsidered
Evolutionary Applications, Volume 15, Issue 12, Page 2002-2009, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Two opposing models currently dominate Near Eastern plant domestication research. The core area‐one event model depicts a knowledge‐based, conscious, geographically centered, rapid single‐event domestication, while the protracted‐autonomous model emphasizes a noncentered, millennia‐long process based on unconscious dynamics.
Zvi Peleg, Shahal Abbo, Avi Gopher
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A VIOLENT END OR A RESPECTFUL BEGINNING? CAVE 120 AT LACHISH REVISED
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 373-396, November 2022., 2022 Summary Cave 120 and three adjacent caves at Tel Lachish in southern Israel produced the largest concentration of human crania ever unearthed in the Near East. The conventional interpretation associates this deposit with primary burials of victims of the city’s destruction by King Sennacherib of Assyria in 701 BC. Taking into consideration attitudes to
Yosef Garfinkel, Eylon Cohen
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 37, Issue 6, Page 1148-1163, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Birds are useful indicators of biodiversity. Their bones have been used for reconstructing the local environments and seasonality of human activity at Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic sites in south‐west Asia. We consider the bird bones from WF16, an early Neolithic settlement in southern Jordan, currently located in an arid environment ...
Steven Mithen +4 more
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Who Were the Natufians? A Dental Assessment of their Biological Coherency
Dental Anthropology, 1997 The Natufians were complex, semi-sedentary hunter-gatherers who intensively exploited wild plant resources in the southern Levant 12,800 to 10,200 BP. They represent the human culturo-behavioral transition from simple, mobile hunter-gatherers to fully ...
Joshua G. Lipschultz
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Jordanian migration and mobility in the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2100–1550 BCE) at Pella
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 339-357, March/April 2022., 2022 Abstract The site of Pella, located in the foothills of the east Jordan valley, was a prosperous city–state throughout the Middle Bronze Age (MBA, ca. 2000–1500 BCE). As part of a widespread trading network, Pella enjoyed extensive socio‐economic relationships with Egypt, Cyprus, and the Aegean, Anatolia, and Babylonia during this period.
Chris Stantis +6 more
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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2022 With the beginning of sedentary life in the Near East, the practice of burying the dead, which was exceptional throughout the Palaeolithic period, became widespread.
Fanny Bocquentin, Camille Noûs
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Human mobility and migration are thought to have played essential roles in the consolidation and expansion of sedentary villages, long-distance exchanges and transmission of ideas and practices during the Neolithic transition of the Near East.
Jonathan Santana +10 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 The average body size of human prey animals in archaeological sites is influenced by myriad environmental, physiological and anthropogenic variables.
Natalie D Munro +2 more
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