The pre‐Natufian Epipaleolithic: Long‐term behavioral trends in the Levant

LA Maher, T Richter, JT Stock - … Anthropology: issues, news …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Few cultural developments have taken on as much archeological significance as when
people began living in villages and producing their own food. The economic, social …

Twenty thousand-year-old huts at a hunter-gatherer settlement in eastern Jordan

LA Maher, T Richter, D Macdonald, MD Jones… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Ten thousand years before Neolithic farmers settled in permanent villages, hunter-gatherer
groups of the Epipalaeolithic period (c. 22–11,600 cal BP) inhabited much of southwest …

Interaction before agriculture: exchanging material and sharing knowledge in the Final Pleistocene Levant

T Richter, AN Garrard, S Allock… - Cambridge …, 2011 - cambridge.org
This article discusses social interaction in the Epipalaeolithic of southwest Asia. Discussions
of contact, social relationships and social organization have primarily focused on the Pre …

Personal Ornaments in Prehistory: An exploration of body augmentation from the Palaeolithic to the Early Bronze Age

EL Baysal - 2019 - torrossa.com
Tens of thousands of years ago at the site of Sunghir in Russia a number of people were
buried with grave goods, including truly extraordinary personal ornaments–thousands of …

Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Late Palaeolithic and Neolithic communities of the Jordanian steppe: The Azraq Basin Project

A Garrard, B Byrd - 2013 - torrossa.com
1 Please note that all 14C dates in this volume have been calibrated to years before present
(BP) using IntCal 2004 for dates that are younger than 20,000 radiocarbon years and CalPal …

High resolution AMS dates from Shubayqa 1, northeast Jordan reveal complex origins of Late Epipalaeolithic Natufian in the Levant

T Richter, A Arranz-Otaegui, L Yeomans, E Boaretto - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The Late Epipalaeolithic Natufian (~ 14,600− 11,500 cal BP) is a key period in the
prehistory of southwest Asia. Often described as a complex hunting and gathering society …

Interglacial and glacial desert refugia and the Middle Paleolithic of the Azraq Oasis, Jordan

CE Cordova, A Nowell, M Bisson, CJH Ames… - Quaternary …, 2013 - Elsevier
A geoarchaeological study of sediments in the Azraq Oasis, in the Eastern Desert of Jordan,
provides information on the fluctuations of the geomorphic and hydrologic systems in this …

Paleoclimatic and archeological implications of Pleistocene and Holocene environments in Azraq, Jordan

MD Jones, T Richter - Quaternary Research, 2011 - cambridge.org
Wetlands are a key archive for paleoclimatic and archeological work, particularly in arid
regions, as they provide a focus for human occupation and preserve environmental …

Modeling foraging ranges and spatial organization of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers in the southern Levant–A least-cost GIS approach

BF Byrd, AN Garrard, P Brandy - Quaternary International, 2016 - Elsevier
This study takes a regional approach to understanding the nature of Near Eastern hunter–
gatherer spatial organization near the height of the Last Glacial Maximum, circa 21,000 …

Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant

LA Maher, DA Macdonald, A Allentuck, L Martin… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
With a specific focus on eastern Jordan, the Epipalaeolithic Foragers in Azraq Project
explores changing hunter–gatherer strategies, behaviours and adaptations to this vast area …