The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archeology of the Levant and Beyond

This volume is a compilation of results from sessions of the Second International Conference on the Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans, which took place between November 30 and December 6, 2014, in Hokkaido, Japan. Similar to the first conference held in 2012 in Tokyo, the 2014 conference...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Nishiaki, Yoshihiro (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Akazawa, Takeru (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series,
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • An Open-Air Site at Nesher Ramla, Israel, and New Insights into Levantine Middle Paleolithic Technology and Site Use
  • A Week in the Life of the Mousterian Hunter
  • Chrono-cultural Considerations of Middle Paleolithic Occurrences at Manot Cave (Western Galilee), Israel
  • Middle Palaeolithic Flint Mines in Mount Carmel: An Alternative Interpretation
  • Initial Upper Palaeolithic Elements of the Keoue Cave, Lebanon
  • The Ahmarian in the Context of the Earlier Upper Palaeolithic in the Near East
  • Ahmarian or Levantine Aurignacian? Wadi Kharar 16R and New Insights into the Upper Palaeolithic Lithic Technology in the northeastern Levant
  • Living on the Edge: The Earliest Modern Human Settlement of the Armenian Highlands in Aghitu-3 Cave
  • The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in the Zagros: The Appearance and Evolution of the Baradostian
  • Upper Palaeolithic Raw Material Economy in the Southern Zagros Mountains of Iran
  • Neanderthals and Modern Humans in the Indus Valley? The Middle and Late (Upper) Palaeolithic settlement of Sindh, a Forgotten Region of the Indian Subcontinent
  • Ecological Niche and Least-cost Path Analyses to Estimate Optimal Migration Routes of Initial Upper Palaeolithic Populations to Eurasia.