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 …

Paleoenvironments and climate at Nahal Me'arot (Mount Carmel, Israel) during the Middle and Late Pleistocene: The herpetofauna of Tabun Cave and el-Wad …

M Lev, R Shimelmitz, M Weinstein-Evron… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Paleolithic record of the Levant encompasses several key changes in human
population dynamics and human biological and cultural evolution. These processes are …

A Natufian ritual event

L Grosman, ND Munro - Current Anthropology, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Ritual practice plays crucial social roles in human societies by communicating information
about social status, calming tensions, and integrating communities. Although communication …

Rethinking Occupation Intensity during the Levantine Middle Epipalaeolithic: The use of Space and Site Formation Processes at the Geometric Kebaran site of Neve …

DE Friesem, R Yeshurun, ZC Dunseth… - … Method and Theory, 2024 - Springer
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 …

Early Upper Paleolithic subsistence in the Levant: Zooarchaeology of the Ahmarian–Aurignacian sequence at Manot Cave, Israel

R Yeshurun, N Schneller-Pels, O Barzilai… - Journal of Human …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Early Upper Paleolithic period in the Levant is essential in the studies of the
establishment of modern human communities outside Africa, and corresponding …

Mobility, site maintenance and archaeological formation processes: An ethnoarchaeological perspective

DE Friesem, N Lavi, S Lew-Levy, AH Boyette - Journal of Anthropological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mobility is considered to play an important role in the way people use their habitual space.
Highly mobile societies present a particular challenge to archaeologists as a direct relation …

A campsite on the open plain: Zooarchaeology of Unit III at the Middle Paleolithic site of Nesher Ramla, Israel

KMC Gershtein, Y Zaidner, R Yeshurun - Quaternary International, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Levantine Middle Paleolithic period displays significant archaeological
variability across a series of cave and open-air sites encompassing ca. 200,000 years …

Squamate bone taphonomy: A new experimental framework and its application to the Natufian zooarchaeological record

M Lev, M Weinstein-Evron, R Yeshurun - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Squamate (lizard and snake) remains are abundant in the terminal Pleistocene Natufian
archaeological sites of the Levant, raising the question of whether they constitute part of the …

Persistent Neanderthal occupation of the open-air site of 'Ein Qashish, Israel

R Ekshtain, A Malinsky-Buller, N Greenbaum, N Mitki… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Aurochs bone deposits at Kfar HaHoresh and the southern Levant across the agricultural transition

JS Meier, AN Goring-Morris, ND Munro - antiquity, 2017 - cambridge.org
Aurochs played a prominent role in mortuary and feasting practices during the Neolithic
transition in south-west Asia, although evidence of these practices is diverse and regionally …