Heinrich Event 2 (ca. 24 ka BP) as a chrono-climatic anchor for the appearance of Epipaleolithic backed bladelets microlith industries in the Southern Levant

I Abadi, A Torfstein, DE Friesem, D Langgut… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Early Epipaleolithic (EEP) of the Southern Levant, roughly dated to 25-18 ka
BP, is characterized by microlithic industries with highly variable synchronic and geographic …

Persistent place-making in prehistory: the creation, maintenance, and transformation of an Epipalaeolithic landscape

LA Maher - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2019 - Springer
Most archaeological projects today integrate, at least to some degree, how past people
engaged with their surroundings, including both how they strategized resource use …

Feathers and food: human-bird interactions at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel

R Blasco, J Rosell, A Sánchez-Marco, A Gopher… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
The presence of fast-moving small game in the Paleolithic archaeological faunal record has
long been considered a key variable to assess fundamental aspects of human behavior and …

Homes for hunters? Exploring the concept of home at hunter-gatherer sites in Upper Paleolithic Europe and Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia

LA Maher, M Conkey - Current Anthropology, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
In both Southwest Asia and Europe, only a handful of known Upper Paleolithic and
Epipaleolithic sites attest to aggregation or gatherings of hunter-gatherer groups, sometimes …

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 …

Portable art from Pleistocene Sulawesi

MC Langley, B Hakim, A Agus Oktaviana… - Nature Human …, 2020 - nature.com
The ability to produce recognizable depictions of objects from the natural world—known as
figurative art—is unique to Homo sapiens and may be one of the cognitive traits that …

Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Jordan River Dureijat archeological site reveal subtle late Pleistocene water-level changes at Lake Hula, Jordan Valley, Israel

E Bunin, C Zhang, G Sharon, S Mischke - Journal of Paleolimnology, 2024 - Springer
Sedimentary records of environmental conditions retrieved from archeological sites provide
valuable insight into the milieux of ancient humans and context to understand societal and …

The upper paleolithic and epipaleolithic of sefunim cave, Israel

R Shimelmitz, DE Friesem, JL Clark… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Sefunim Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel was previously excavated in the 1960s and is
one of the main sites known for the occurrence of the cultural entity termed the Levantine …

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 …

Technological change and economy in the Epipalaeolithic: assessing the shift from Early to Middle Epipalaeolithic at Kharaneh IV

DA Macdonald, A Allentuck… - Journal of Field …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherer communities in the Southern Levant exhibit numerous
complex trends that suggest that the transition to the Neolithic was patchy and protracted …