The Acheulian Site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov Volume III Mammalian Taphonomy. The Assemblages of Layers V-5 and V-6 /

• Main Authors: Rabinovich, Rivka (Author), Gaudzinski-Windheuser, Sabine (Author), Kindler, Lutz (Author), Goren-Inbar, Naama (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Ecology.; Vertebrates.; Archaeology.; Earth Sciences.

Multidisciplinary research on the Early-Middle Pleistocene site of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov has yielded abundant climatic, environmental, ecological and behavioral records. The 15 archaeological horizons form a sequence of Acheulian occupational episodes on the shore of the paleo-Lake Hula. These enable...

Table of Contents:

• 1. INTRODUCTION
• 2. THE ACHEULIAN SITE OF GESHER BENOT YA‘AQOV
• 3. MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY
• 4. SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY
• 5. TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS
• 6. RECONSTRUCTING SITE-FORMATION PROCESSES AT GBY - THE EXPERIMENTS
• 7. A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE TAPHONOMIC HISTORY OF GBY
• 8. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS.