Human paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor / Naama Goren-Inbar and John D. Speth, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goren-Inbar, N.

Speth, John D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prehistoric peoples--Middle East.

Prehistoric peoples.

Paleoecology--Pleistocene.

Paleoecology.

Paleoecology--Middle East.

Human ecology--Middle East.

Human ecology.

Human evolution--Middle East.

Human evolution.

Human beings--Middle East.

Human beings.

Middle East--Antiquities.

Middle East.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xviii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books, [2004]

Contents:

The Levantine waterway, riparian archaeology, paleolimnology, and conservation / Dov F. Por

Quaternary lake margins of the Levant Rift Valley / Craig S. Feibel

Hippos, pigs, bovids, saber-toothed tigers, monkeys, and hominids : dispersals through the Levantine Corridor during late Pliocene and early Pleistocene times / Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro

Ecological interactions of elephantids in Pleistocene Eurasia : Palaeoloxodon and Mammuthus / Adrian M. Lister

Long-term continuity of a freshwater turtle (Mauremys caspica rivulata) population in the northern Jordan Valley and its paleoenvironmental implications / Gideon Hartman

Early hominid subsistence in the Levant : taphonomic studies of the Plio-Pleistocene 'Ubeidiya Formation (Israel)

evidence from 'Ubeidiya layer II-24 / Sabine Gaudzinski

Bands and other corporate hominid groups in Acheulian culture / Emanuel Marx

Culture and genes in the evolution of human language / Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka

Climate variability in the Levant and northeast Africa during the late Quaternary based on marine and land records / Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Miryam Bar-Matthews and Avner Ayalon

Dental pathology, stressful events, and disease in Levantine early anatomically modern humans : evidence from Qafzeh / Anne-Marie Tillier ... [et al.]

Hunting pressure, subsistence intensification, and demographic change in the Levantine late Middle Paleolithic / John D. Speth

Wetland drainage in the Levant (Lake Hula, Amik Gölü, and el-Azraq Oasis) : impact on avian fauna / Shoshana Ashkenazi

"A feather for each wind that blows" : utilizing avifauna in assessing changing patterns in paleoecology and subsistence at Jordan Valley archaeological sites / Tal Simmons

Natufian behavior in the Hula Basin : the question of territoriality / François R. Valla.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1842171550

OCLC:

57415350