ABSTRACT A methodology for identifying prehistoric local learning communities is
proposed. We wish to test possible relationships among communities based on continuity …

The shift from mobile hunting-gathering lifeways to sedentism has been frequently studied,
and the Natufian culture is commonly recognized as the earliest sedentary society in the …

For more than 10,000 years between the peak of the Last Glacial Maximum and the
beginning of the Holocene, people repeatedly returned to the same spot on the southern …

It is assumed that the Levantine inter-group networks that enabled the transfer of knowledge
and innovation throughout the region are a distinguishing characteristic of the Near Eastern …

Abstract Recent excavations at Leang Bulu Bettue, a limestone cave on the Indonesian
island of Sulawesi, have yielded a collection of flaked chert and limestone artefacts with …

At the end of the Pleistocene, the Near Eastern Epipaleolithic chrono-cultural complex
experienced profound cultural changes. Among these, the acquisition of exotic goods …

Engraved artifacts from pre-Natufian Levantine Epipaleolithic contexts are notable for their
scarcity. This is so even though a number of implements have recently been added to the …

Abstract In the Levant, the Epipalaeolithic is a long sequence of cultural entities dated
between ca. 24,000 to 11,500 cal BP. Different Epipalaeolithic entities are mainly defined …

Abstract The Levantine Epipaleolithic period witnessed remarkable cultural processes,
culminating with the rise of sedentary hamlets in the Early Natufian. The role of terminal …

Since the recent discovery of Late Pleistocene rock art in Island Southeast Asia was
announced, evidence for symbolic behaviour in the region has become a focus of …