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The lithic assemblages of Qafzeh Cave /

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 lo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hovers, Erella
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Human evolution series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Bernard Vandermeersch and Ofer Bar-Yosef
  • Premises and concepts underlying the study of the Qafzeh lithics
  • Qafzeh Cave : the region and the site
  • Lithic production 1 : the cores
  • Lithic production 2 : the debitage
  • Lithic production 3 : the retouched artifacts
  • The organization of lithic technology in Qafzeh
  • Qafzeh Cave in a broader perspective : subsistence and mobility
  • Population dynamics during the Middle Paleolithic period in the Levant
  • Tracing behavioral modernity in the Levantine record.