Four symbolic artefacts were recovered from the Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic (Wadi
Rabah culture) site of Neveh Yam, dated to the sixth–fifth millennia BCE. These comprise …

The Pottery Neolithic of the Mediterranean zone of the southern Levant consists of three
primary cultural entities (from early to late): the Yarmukian, the Lodian/Jericho IX and Wadi …

The Natufian culture is the first cultural entity in the southern Levant to have large
graveyards and a wide array of symbolic expressions. Hundreds of Natufian burials have …

Prior to the Neolithic, hunter-gatherers in the Levant exhibited a wide range of mobility
patterns, including large aggregation sites, suggesting that the shift to sedentism was not an …

The likelihood that Palaeolithic artisans sometimes used natural objects as models for their
image-making has long been suggested, yet well-contextualized and stratified examples …

From the Upper Palaeolithic to the present, birds constituted a marginal motif in the
extensive corpus of human artistic expression. Only one episode of human history stands …

This paper presents the results of the salvage excavations at Netzer Sereni in the
Mediterranean Coastal Plain of Israel. The site was uncovered within alluvial sand. The …

The Neolithization process in the Levant, composed of a series of major transformations in
food acquisition, land use, demographic dynamics and social organization, has been a …

The archaeology of hunter-gatherers has much to tell us about how humans engaged with
the world around them in complex and knowledgeable ways throughout prehistory. The …

This chapter stems from a paper given at the “Consciousness and Creativity at the Dawn of
Settled Life: The Test-Case of Çatalhöyük” workshop held in Cambridge, UK, in July 2017 …