Paleolithic Site of Douara Cave and Paleogeography of Palmyra Basin in Syria
Title | Paleolithic Site of Douara Cave and Paleogeography of Palmyra Basin in Syria PDF eBook |
Author | Kazurō Hanihara |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Duwwārah Cave, Syria |
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Paleolithic Site of the Douara Cave and Paleogeography of Palmyra Basin in Syria: Prehistoric occurrences and chronology in Palmyra Basin
Title | Paleolithic Site of the Douara Cave and Paleogeography of Palmyra Basin in Syria: Prehistoric occurrences and chronology in Palmyra Basin PDF eBook |
Author | Kazurō Hanihara |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Duwwārah Cave (Syria) |
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Paleolithic Site of the Douara Cave and Paleogeography of Palmyra Basin in Syria: Animal bones and further analysis of archeological materials
Title | Paleolithic Site of the Douara Cave and Paleogeography of Palmyra Basin in Syria: Animal bones and further analysis of archeological materials PDF eBook |
Author | Kazurō Hanihara |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | History |
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Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Late Palaeolithic and Neolithic Communities of the Jordanian Steppe. The Azraq Basin Project
Title | Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Late Palaeolithic and Neolithic Communities of the Jordanian Steppe. The Azraq Basin Project PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Garrard |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
Pages | 1032 |
Release | 2013-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1782970061 |
The natural arc of resource-rich land which forms the ‘Fertile Crescent’ of South-West Asia is regarded as the earliest centre of village-based farming in the world and has been the focus of much of our understanding of the transition from Epipalaeolithic hunter-gathers to Neolithic farmers. Beyond the Fertile Crescent is the first volume of the Azraq Project, a large-scale archaeological and palaeoenvironmental survey and excavation project undertaken between 1982 and 1989 in the ecologically diverse sub-region of the Azraq Basin in north-central Jordan: an area rich in Palaeolithic and Neolithic archaeology. Beginning with an overview to the Project aims, a detailed analysis of past and present environments and land use and the history of excavation in the Basin, Beyond the Fertile Crescent explores the geology, stratigraphy and dating of the Late Palaeolithic sites and provides a detailed description of the technology and typology of the lithic assemblages from the sites. These are then compared with those from the wider Levant, in order to explore possible links between technological traditions and social groups in order to understand the evidence for settlement strategies across the region.
The Archaeology of Syria
Title | The Archaeology of Syria PDF eBook |
Author | Peter M. M. G. Akkermans |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521796668 |
This was the first book to present a comprehensive review of the archaeology of Syria from the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC. Syria has become a prime focus of field archaeology in the Middle East in the past thirty years, and Peter Akkermans and Glenn Schwartz discuss the results of this intensive fieldwork, integrating them with earlier research. Alongside the major material culture types of each period, they examine important contributions of Syrian archaeology to issues like the onset of agriculture, the emergence of private property and social inequality, the rise and collapse of urban life, and the archaeology of early empires. All competing interpretations are set out and considered, alongside the authors' own perspectives and conclusions.
Lithics and Livelihood
Title | Lithics and Livelihood PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Paul Robert Magne |
Publisher | University of Ottawa Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1985-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1772821268 |
This study is designed to investigate patterns of lithic technological variability in relation to settlement strategies that were employed by late prehistoric inhabitants of central and southern regions of interior British Columbia. The research contributes to current archaeological method through an experimental program of stone tool manufacture, and also to the understanding of Interior plateau prehistory, through a multi-regional analysis of technological variability.
Stone Tools in Transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East
Title | Stone Tools in Transition: From Hunter-Gatherers to Farming Societies in the Near East PDF eBook |
Author | Borrell, Ferran |
Publisher | Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Pages | 543 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 8449044863 |
This volume compiles the papers presented at the seventh edition of the Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Fertile Crescent, held in Barcelona from 14 to 17 February 2012. This series of conferences/workshops started nineteen years ago - the first meeting was organised in Berlin in 1993 - and is devoted to the study of the lithic record in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East and neighbouring regions. The seventh of these conferences was organised by the Institució Milà i Fontanals (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) and the Prehistory Department (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). This volume includes a total number of 36 articles, covering a wide range of topics and disciplines related to lithic studies in the Levant over a long chronological time span (from the final stages of the Epipalaeolithic/Natufian to the Halaf period). The publication of the conference proceedings is thus an interesting synthesis of the current state of lithic studies on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East, and consolidates this specific series of conferences as a key tool to maintain and stimulate the vitality of high quality research into the Near Eastern lithic record.