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South-Eastern Mediterranean Peoples Between 130,000 and 10,000 Years Ago
edited by Elena A.A. Garcea
The Upper Pleistocene era encompassed a period of dramatic cultural developments in the south-eastern Mediterranean basin. This book highlights and synthesizes the latest research and current scientific debate on the archaeology of this time period in North Africa and the Near East.
Recent archaeological research in North Africa has meant this region now plays a decisive role in scientific debate. After decades of neglect, the archaeological record from North Africa has now been seen to parallel in significance that of the Near East. This book offers an opportunity to observe the Afro-Asian side of the Mediterranean basin as an uninterrupted land, as it was for its Upper Pleistocene inhabitants.
Areas of focus include the Out-of-Africa movement of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) into the Levant and the transition from the Middle Palaeolithic/Middle Stone Age to the Upper Palaeolithic/Later Stone Age, during which a change of lifestyle took place, based on plant cultivation and animal husbandry.
These topics are of crucial interest to anyone studying human evolution, prehistoric archaeology, anthropology, and palaeo-environmental studies. This volume brings together data as well as perspectives from various scholars, often separated by their areas of interest and location.
This volume is complementary to The Mediterranean from 50,000 to 25,000 BP: Turning Points and New Directions edited by M. Camps and C. Szmidt (Oxbow Books, 2009). 192p, 86 b/w illus, 8 tables (Oxbow Books 2010)
Review Quote
"South-Eastern Mediterranean Peoples Between 130,000 and 10,000 Years Ago is a handsome, geographically comprehensive, and practical collection of papers that encompasses interdisciplinary studies on the current human evolution debate, prehistoric archaeology, and palaeoenvironment. The coverage is regional and the scope of the book balanced across the south-eastern Mediterranean region. This nicely produced volume concerning the evolution of our species 100,000 years ago, will appeal to a cross-disciplinary readership of scholars, and students with some basic knowledge who wish to study the topic in more detail; as well as to various specialists due to the quality of its papers, its diversity of approaches, and its wide range of data."
Annita Antoniadou
Archaeological Review from Cambridge
(2011)
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Goals and challenges (Elena A. A. Garcea)
2. Palaeoenvironments of eastern North Africa and the Levant in the late Pleistocene (Jennifer R. Smith)
3. A new luminescence chronology for Aterian cave sites on the Atlantic coast of Morocco (Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Simon N. Collcutt, Nick Barton, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Laine Clark-Balzan, Mohamed Abdeljalil El Hajraoui, Roland Nespoulet and André Debénath)
4. The spread of Aterian peoples in North Africa (Elena A. A. Garcea)
5. The lower and upper later Stone Age of North Africa (Elena A. A. Garcea)
6. Middle and upper Palaeolithic in the Egyptian Nile Valley (Pierre M. Vermeersch)
7. Late Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in the Nile Valley of Nubia and upper Egypt (Romuald Schild and Fred Wendorf)
8. Neanderthals and early homo sapiens in the Levant (John J. Shea)
9. The Levantine upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic (Ofer Bar-Yosef and Anna Belfer-Cohen)
10. The later Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant: a brief history and review (Brian Boyd)
11. Bridging the gap between in and out of Africa (Elena A. A. Garcea)
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