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Palaeolithic/Neolithic Near East

Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic
edited by William Davies and Ruth Charles
Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best known as a fieldworker, often venturing into dangerous regions such as Kurdistan. Her first and highly successful excavation revealed fragments of Neanderthal fossils in Gibralter. This volume ...
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Tell Kosak Shamali Vol I: The Archaeological Investigations on the Upper Euphrates, Syria
edited by Yoshihiro Nishiaki and Toshio Matsutani
This first volume in a series of works on Tell Kosak Shamali focuses on the Chalcolithic deposits at the site, or the Ubaid period. Located on the east bank of the Euphrates the site held an important strategic position and one which had a diverse set of resources available. Investigated since the 1980s and most recently by the University of Tokyo, this volume reports on the results of the excavations, detailing the geographical and cultural ...
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Tell Kosak Shamali Vol II: The Archaeological Investigations on the Upper Euphrates, Syria. Chalcolithic Technology and Subsistence
edited by Yoshihiro Nishiaki and Toshio Matsutani
The four seasons of excavation at Tell Kosak Shamali yielded around 33,000 flaked stone artefacts from the Chalcolithic perid. These discoveries have allowed archaeologists their first oportunity to study lithic manufacturing activities and their development over this period in the Upper Euphrates valley, Syria. The tools are described and documented within their chronological context, and their functional and morphological properties discussed. ...
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Sha'ar Hagolan: Neolithic Art in Context
by Josef Garfinkel and Michele Miller
This monograph presents the revolutionary results of ten years of excavation and research in the Neolithic village of Sha'ar Hagolan, Jordan Valley, Israel. Sha'ar Hagolan is dated to the Pottery Neolithic period and is the type-site for the Yarmukian culture, which occupied large parts of the Mediterranean climatic zones of Israel, Jordan and Lebanon during the sixth millennium BC. Recent excavations at the site have far-reaching implications ...
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The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Site of WF16 and Archaeological Survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and Al Bustan
edited by Bill Finlayson and Steven Mithen
This edited volume provides a full report on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site of WF16, southern Jordan. Very few sites of PPNA date have been excavated using modern methods, so this report makes a very significant contribution to our understanding of this period. Excavations have shown that the site contains a highly dynamic use of architecture, and the faunal assemblage reveals new information on the processes that lead to the domestication of ...
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The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya'akov, Israel: 1, The Wood Assemblage
by Naama Goren-Inbar, Ella Werker and Craig S Feibel
Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, located in the Dead Sea Rift valley, is one of the oldest non-African sites to have yielded evidence for the activities of groups of hominin hunter-gatherers. The excavations recovered thousands of Acheulian period stone tools and animal bones that had accumulated in and around an ancient lake about 780, 000 years ago. The deposits have remained waterlogged virtually ever since, and this unusual circumstance resulted in the ...
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The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture
by Jacques Cauvin
Originally published as Naissances des divinités, naissance de l'agriculture, this book, translated into English by Trevor Watkins, forms a synthesis of Jacques Cauvin's work and ideas on the Neolithic in the Near East. Challenging traditional views of the Neolithic Revolution, Cauvin assesses the evidence for the nature and causes of the shift from hunter-gathering to societies based on agriculture: changes in symbols and religion, ...
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Holocene Landscapes Through Time in the Fertile Crescent
edited by K. Deckers
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The Prehistory of Asia Minor: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies
by Bleda S. During
A synthesis of the Prehistory of Asia Minor from 20,000 to 2,000 BC, and from small-scale hunter-gatherer groups to complex and hierarchical communities with economies based on agriculture and industry. Dr Düring traces the spread of the Neolithic way of life, which ultimately reached across Eurasia, and the emergence of key human developments, including the domestication of animals, metallurgy, fortified towns and long-distance trading ...
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The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Y'aqov, Volume II: Ancient Flames and Controlled Use of Fire
by Nira Alperson-Afil and Naama Goren-Inbar
This book presents the spatial analyses of burned and unburned flint items which provide evidence for the controlled use of fire at the 790,000-year-old Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Yaaqov (GBY). Clusters of burned flint, interpreted as the remnants of hearths, occur throughout the entire occupational sequence of the site. The fact that fire is repetitively used suggests that the knowledge of fire-making and the technological skills of the ...
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