The middle and upper paleolithic archeology of the Levant and beyond

Körperschaft: International Conference on "Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans"
Weitere Verfasser: Nishiaki, Yoshihiro , [HerausgeberIn]
Akazawa, Takeru , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Singapore : Springer, 2018.
Umfang/Format: ix, 218 pages. : color illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Replacement of Neanderthals by modern human series
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Archeological issues in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of the Levant and its neighboring regions / Yoshihiro Nishiaki and Takeru Akazawa
  • Part I. The Levant. 2. An open-air site at Nesher Ramla, Israel, and new insights into Levantine Middle Paleolithic technology and site use / Yossi Zaidner, Laura Centi, Marion Prevost, Maayan Shemer, and Oz Varoner ; 3. A week in the life of the Mousterian hunter / Gonen Sharon ; 4. Chrono-cultural considerations of Middle Paleolithic occurrences at Manot Cave (western Galilee), Israel / Ofer Marder, Omry Barzilai, Talia Abulafia, Israel Hershkovitz, and Mae Goder-Goldberger ; 5. Middle Palaeolithic flint mines in Mount Carmel : an alternative interpretation / Avraham Ronen ; 6. Initial Upper Paleolithic elements of the Keoue Cave, Lebanon / Yoshihiro Nishiaki ; 7. The Ahmarian in the context of the earlier Upper Palaeolithic in the Near East / Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen ; 8. Ahmarian or Levantine Aurignacian? : Wadi Kharar 16R and new insights into the Upper Palaeolithic lithic technology in the northeastern Levant / Seiji Kadowaki
  • Part II. The neighboring regions of the Levant. 9. Living on the edge : the earliest modern human settlement of the Armenian Highlands in Aghitu-3 Cave / Andreas Taller, Boris Gasparyan, and Andrew W. Kandel ; 10. The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the Zagros : the appearance and evolution of the Baradostian / Sonia Shidrang ; 11. Upper Palaeolithic raw material economy in the southern Zagros Mountains of Iran / Elham Ghasidian and Saman Heydari-Guran ; 12. Neanderthals and modern humans in the Indus Valley? : the middle and late (Upper) Palaeolithic settlement of Sindh, a forgotten region of the Indian subcontinent / Paolo Biagi and Elisabetta Starnini ; 13. Ecological niche and least-cost path analyses to estimate optimal migration routes of initial Upper Palaeolithic populations to Eurasia / Yasu