Abstract The Natufian culture (c. 14.6–11.5 ka cal. BP) represents the last hunter-gatherer
society that inhabited southwest Asia before the development of plant food production. It has …

Evidence for the symbolic behavior of Neanderthals in the use of personal ornaments is
relatively scarce. Among the few ornaments documented, eagle talons, which were …

Current evidence suggests domestications of the dog were incipient developments in many
areas of the world. In southwest Asia this process took place in the Late Epipalaeolithic …

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 …

Early Neolithic avifaunas excavated at the sites of Göbekli Tepe and Gusir Höyük illustrate
two entirely different modes of bird exploitation in south-eastern Anatolia during the 10th and …

The paper discusses a multi-proxy archaeobotanical dataset from the published
macrobotanical and microbotanical research of 19 Epipalaeolithic sites over a period of 13.5 …

Excavations at the early Neolithic settlement of WF16 in Faynan, southern Jordan, 11.84–
10.24 ka BP, recovered 17,700 bird bones, of which 7808 could be identified to at least …

This paper presents a summary of work undertaken by the authors and their teams on a
series of Qe'an (plural of Qa'), in the Badia of eastern Jordan. These basins are foci for …

Birds are useful indicators of biodiversity. Their bones have been used for reconstructing the
local environments and seasonality of human activity at Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic …

Much research has been conducted in the arid zone of Jordan, beyond the Mediterranean
environments traditionally understood as the Neolithic core developmental area. The …