The lithic assemblages of Qafzeh Cave / Erella Hovers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hovers, Erella, author.

Series:

Human evolution series.

Oxford scholarship online.

Human evolution series

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleolithic period--Israel--Qafzeh Cave.

Paleolithic period.

Tools, Prehistoric--Israel--Qafzeh Cave.

Tools, Prehistoric.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel--Qafzeh Cave.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Qafzeh Cave (Israel)--Antiquities.

Qafzeh Cave (Israel).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents the first comprehensive description of the lithic assemblages from Qafzeh Cave, one of only two Middle Paleolithic sites in the Levant that has yielded multiple burials of early anatomically modern Homo sapiens (AMHs). The record from this region raises the question of possible long-term temporal overlap between early AMHs and Neanderthals. For this reason, Qafzeh has long been one of the pivotal sites in debates on the origins of AMHs and in attempts to compare and contrast the two species' adaptations and behavior. Although the hominin fossils from the site were published

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; 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 Artifacts; 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 Population Dynamics during the Middle Paleolithic Period in the Levant; 10 Concluding Comments: Tracing Behavioral Modernity in the Levantine Record

Appendix 1: The History of Excavations in Middle Paleolithic Sites in the Levant: 1925-1999Appendix 2: Attributes Used in Core Analysis; Appendix 3: Attributes Used in the Analysis of Flakes and Flake Tools; Appendix 4: Notes on Typological Classification of the Qafzeh Assemblages; Appendix 5: Detailed Counts of Debitage and Tools; Appendix 6: Radiometric Dates of Levantine Mousterian Sites; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-316) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771706-3

1-282-12528-1

9786612125287

0-19-804341-4

OCLC:

666935188