The volume includes a wide-ranging and up-to-date bibliography that provides the middle-range for discussing the ecological context and behavioral complexity of the Middle Paleolithic period, and ends with some thought-provoking conclusions about the dynamic human interactions that existed in the region duringthis time. INDICE: Foreword; Preface; 1: Introduction; 2: Premises and Concepts Underlying the Study of the Qafzeh Lithics; 3: Qafzeh Cave: The Region and the Site; 4: Lithic Production. 1. The Cores; 5: Lithic Production. 2. The Debitage; 6: Lithic Production. 3. The Retouched Artifiacts; 7: The Organization of Lithic Technology in Qafzeh; 8: Qafzeh Cave in a Broader Perspective: Subsistence and Mobility Patterns in the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant; 9: PopulationDynamics during the Middle Paleolithic Period in the Levant; 10: Concluding Comments: Tracing Behavioral Modernity in the Levantine Record; Appendix 1: Thehistory of excavations in Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant 1925-1999; Appendix 2: Attributes used in core analysis; Appendix 3: Attributes used in the analysis of flakes and flake tools; Appendix 4: Notes on typological classification in the Qafzeh assemblages; Appendix 5: Detailed counts of debitage andtools; Appendix 6: Radiometric dates of Levantine Mousterian sites
- ISBN: 978-0-19-532277-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés