The Prehistory of Jordan. II. Perspectives from 1997 / edited by Hans Georg K. Gebel, Zeidan Kafafi and Gary O. Rollefson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gebel, Hans Georg.

Kafafi, Zeidan Abdel-Kafi, 1950-

Rollefson, Gary Olin.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Studies in early Near Eastern production, subsistence, and environment 0947-0549 ; 4.

Studies in early Near Eastern production, subsistence, and environment, 0947-0549 ; 4

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Prehistoric peoples--Jordan.

Prehistoric peoples.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Jordan--Antiquities.

Jordan.

Antiquities.

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Jordan.

Physical Description:

iii, 662 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Ex oriente, 1997.

Language Note:

English; one paper in French; some summaries in German.

Contents:

Early Acheulean stone tools and fossil faunas from the Dauqara formation, Upper Zarqa Valley, Jordanian Plateau / Fabio Parenti ... [et al.]

Preliminary results from the Acheulian site of Mashariʾa 1 and a new stratigraphic framework for the Lower Palaeolithic of the east Jordan Valley / Phillip G. Macumber and Phillip C. Edwards

ʻAin Soda and ʻAin Qasiya, new Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene sites in the Azraq Shishan area, eastern Jordan / Gary O. Rollefson ... [et al.]

An initial technotypological analysis of J447, an open-air Levantine Mousterian site in southern Jordan / Alan P. Olson

Cultural and geologic successions of Middle and Upper Paleolithic deposits in the Jebel Qalkha area of southern Jordan / Donald O. Henry

Chronostratigraphic contexts of Middle Paleolithic horizons at the ʻAin Difla Rockshelter (WHS 634), west-central Jordan / Geoffrey A. Clark ... [et al.]

Use-wear analysis of Levallois points from the ʻAin Difla Rockshelter, west-central Jordan / Kathy L. Roler and Geoffrey A. Clark.

Upper Paleolithic technologies / Nancy R. Coinman

Jebel Humeima, a preliminary lithic analysis of an Ahmarian and Levantine Mousterian site in southwest Jordan / Kristopher W. Kerry

Tor Aeid, an Upper Paleolithic site in southern Jordan / John K. Williams

Upper Palaeolithic Siq Umm al-Alda, near Petra, southern Jordan / Daniel Schyle and Hans Georg K. Gebel

From the Late Ahmarian to the Early Natufian / Deborah Olszewski

Status, perspectives and future goals in Jordanian Palaeolithic research / Lorraine Copeland

Trying to fit round houses into square holes / Ian Kuijt

The 1995 season at the Neolithic site of Es-Sifiya, Wadi Mujib, Jordan / Hamzeh Mahasneh

ʻAyn el-Jammam, a Neolithic site near Ras en-Naqb, southern Jordan / Mohammad Waheeb and Nazih Fino

Baʻja hidden in the Petra Mountains / Hans Georg K. Gebel and Hans-Dieter Bienert

Pragmatic studies of Near Eastern Neolithic sickle blades / Leslie A. Quintero, Philip J. Wilke, and J. Giles Waines

Changes in architecture and social organization at Neolithic ʻAin Ghazal / Gary O. Rollefson

Ecological changes during the Late Neolithic in Jordan / Alan Simmons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

3980424138

OCLC:

40445731