Abstract The open-air Epipalaeolithic (Geometric Kebaran) site of Neve David (Mount
Carmel, Israel) has played an important role in reconstructing scenarios of sedentarization in …

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 …

Middle Paleolithic human occupation in the Levant (250–50 ka ago) has been recorded in
roofed (cave and rockshelter) and open-air sites. Research at these different types of sites …

Over the last two decades, much of the recent efforts dedicated to the Levantine Middle
Paleolithic has concentrated on the role of open-air sites in the settlement system in the …

Shovakh cave is a late Middle Paleolithic cave site in Northern Israel, situated ca. 8 km from
the Sea of Galilee. The Cave was originally was excavated by Sally Binford in 1962, and …

The transformation of society from mobile hunter-gatherers to settled farmers was completed
in Neolithic times and became a point of 'no return'in human history. The nature and the …

The Levantine corridor sits at the continental crossroads of Africa and Eurasia, making it a
focal point for scientific inquiry into the emergence of modern humans and their relations …

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 …

Drawing on a variety of lithic and faunal data from Hayonim, Kebara, Amud, and other well-
documented sites in the Levant and adjacent areas, as well as information on numbers of …

Abstract The Levantine Early Upper Paleolithic (ca. 45–30 ka) has been a focus of research
because of its unique position as a conduit of human, flora, and fauna species between …