Quaternary of the Levant
Title | Quaternary of the Levant PDF eBook |
Author | Yehouda Enzel |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 789 |
Release | 2017-04-27 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1316841847 |
Quaternary of the Levant presents up-to-date research achievements from a region that displays unique interactions between the climate, the environment and human evolution. Focusing on southeast Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel, it brings together over eighty contributions from leading researchers to review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution. Information from prehistoric sites and palaeoanthropological studies contributing to our understanding of 'out of Africa' migrations, Neanderthals, cultures of modern humans, and the origins of agriculture are assessed within the context of glacial-interglacial cycles, marine isotope cycles, plate tectonics, geochronology, geomorphology, palaeoecology and genetics. Complemented by overview summaries that draw together the findings of each chapter, the resulting coverage is wide-ranging and cohesive. The cross-disciplinary nature of the volume makes it an invaluable resource for academics and advanced students of Quaternary science and human prehistory, as well as being an important reference for archaeologists working in the region.
Quaternary of the Levant
Title | Quaternary of the Levant PDF eBook |
Author | Yehouda Enzel |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 789 |
Release | 2017-04-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107090466 |
Over eighty contributions from leading researchers review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution in the Levant.
Quaternary of the Levant: Environments
Title | Quaternary of the Levant: Environments PDF eBook |
Author | Yehouda Enzel |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781316842881 |
Geological Framework of the Levant
Title | Geological Framework of the Levant PDF eBook |
Author | Valeriĭ Arkadʹevich Krasheninnikov |
Publisher | |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Natufian Foragers in the Levant
Title | Natufian Foragers in the Levant PDF eBook |
Author | Ofer Bar-Yosef |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 717 |
Release | 2013-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789201578 |
This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.
The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archeology of the Levant and Beyond
Title | The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archeology of the Levant and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Yoshihiro Nishiaki |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2017-12-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9811068267 |
This volume is a compilation of results from sessions of the Second International Conference on the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans, which took place between November 30 and December 6, 2014, in Hokkaido, Japan. Similar to the first conference held in 2012 in Tokyo, the 2014 conference (RNMH2014) aimed to compile the results of the latest multidisciplinary approaches investigating the issues surrounding the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans. The results of the sessions, supplemented by off-site contributions, center on the archeology of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of the Levant and beyond. The first part of this volume presents recent findings from the Levant, while the second part focuses on the neighboring regions, namely, the Caucasus, the Zagros, and South Asia. The 13 chapters in this volume highlight the distinct nature of the cultural occurrences during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods of the Levant, displaying a continuous development as well as a combination of lithic traditions that may have originated in different regions. This syncretism, which is an unusual occurrence in the regions discussed in this volume, reinforces the importance of the Levant as a region for interpreting the RNMH phenomenon in West Asia.
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant PDF eBook |
Author | Margreet L. Steiner |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 912 |
Release | 2014-01-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0191662550 |
This Handbook aims to serve as a research guide to the archaeology of the Levant, an area situated at the crossroads of the ancient world that linked the eastern Mediterranean, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. The Levant as used here is a historical geographical term referring to a large area which today comprises the modern states of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, western Syria, and Cyprus, as well as the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula. Unique in its treatment of the entire region, it offers a comprehensive overview and analysis of the current state of the archaeology of the Levant within its larger cultural, historical, and socio-economic contexts. The Handbook also attempts to bridge the modern scholarly and political divide between archaeologists working in this highly contested region. Written by leading international scholars in the field, it focuses chronologically on the Neolithic through Persian periods - a time span during which the Levant was often in close contact with the imperial powers of Egypt, Anatolia, Assyria, Babylon, and Persia. This volume will serve as an invaluable reference work for those interested in a contextualised archaeological account of this region, beginning with the 'agricultural revolution' until the conquest of Alexander the Great that marked the end of the Persian period.