Levantine overkill: 1.5 million years of hunting down the body size distribution

J Dembitzer, R Barkai, M Ben-Dor, S Meiri - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Multiple large-bodied species went extinct during the Pleistocene. Changing climates and/or
human hunting are the main hypotheses used to explain these extinctions. We studied the …

The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the southern Levant: New insights from the late Middle Paleolithic site of Far'ah II, Israel

M Goder-Goldberger, O Crouvi, V Caracuta… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Far'ah II is an open-air site in the north western Negev desert (Israel). Previous excavations
in the 1970's revealed a rich, in situ Middle Paleolithic (MP) assemblage composed of flint …

[HTML][HTML] Being-with other predators: Cultural negotiations of Neanderthal-carnivore relationships in Late Pleistocene Europe

ST Hussain, M Weiss, TK Nielsen - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2022 - Elsevier
Late Pleistocene hominins co-evolved with non-analogue assemblages of carnivores and
carnivorous omnivores. Although previous work has carefully examined the ecological and …

Extended longevity of DNA preservation in levantine paleolithic sediments, sefunim cave, Israel

V Slon, JL Clark, DE Friesem, M Orbach, N Porat… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Paleogenomic research can elucidate the evolutionary history of human and faunal
populations. Although the Levant is a key land-bridge between Africa and Eurasia, thus far …

[图书][B] From Arabia to the Pacific: How our species colonised Asia

R Dennell - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Drawing upon invasion biology and the latest archaeological, skeletal and environment
evidence, From Arabia to the Pacific documents the migration of humans into Asia, and …

Early Upper Paleolithic cultural variability in the Southern Levant: New evidence from Nahal Rahaf 2 Rockshelter, Judean Desert, Israel

M Shemer, E Boaretto, N Greenbaum… - Journal of Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

A technotypological analysis of the Ahmarian and Levantine Aurignacian assemblages from Manot Cave (area C) and the interrelation with site formation processes

T Abulafia, M Goder-Goldberger, F Berna… - Journal of Human …, 2021 - Elsevier
For more than a century, prehistoric research has focused on cave sites and rock shelters,
mostly because of good preservation of organic remains associated with stratified …

[HTML][HTML] Grotta Grande (southern Italy). Disentangling the Neandertal and carnivore interaction in a short-term palimpsest at the last glacial onset (∼ 116-109 ka)

V Spagnolo, J Crezzini, C Falguères, O Tombret… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mousterian of the Grotta Grande (Southern Italy) is here subject to new dating,
which provide a surprisingly high-resolution on the stratigraphic sequence. Overall, the …

Personal ornaments from Hayonim and Manot caves (Israel) hint at symbolic ties between the Levantine and the European Aurignacian

JM Tejero, R Rabinovich, R Yeshurun… - Journal of human …, 2021 - Elsevier
Situated at the crossroads of Africa and Eurasia, the Levant is a crucial region for
understanding the origins and spread of Upper Paleolithic (UP) traditions associated with …

Death at the water hole: Opportunistic hunting and scavenging events in the upper sequence of Middle Paleolithic Nesher Ramla, Israel

M Orbach, G Hartman, F Rivals, C Zeigen… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Distinguishing between selective and opportunistic hunting is a major challenge in
Paleolithic archaeology, requiring the comparison of the human hunting record to the …