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Reconstructing Late Pleistocene Human Behavior in the Jordan Rift Valley: The Middle Paleolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Ar Rasfa: The Middle ... Archaeological Reports International Series) - Softcover

Sabri Ahmad, Ghufran; Shea, John J

 
9781407306186: Reconstructing Late Pleistocene Human Behavior in the Jordan Rift Valley: The Middle Paleolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Ar Rasfa: The Middle ... Archaeological Reports International Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1407306189 ISBN 13: 9781407306186
Publisher: BAR Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Ar Rasfa is a Middle Paleolithic open-air site located in the Rift Valley of Northwest Jordan excavated between 1997-1999. This book presents a detailed technological, typological, and paleoanthropological analysis of the stone tool assemblage from Ar Rasfa. Artifacts reflecting the initial preparation and exploitation of local flint sources dominate the Ar Rasfa assemblage. Typologically, the assemblage is most similar to Levantine Mousterian assemblages such as those from Naamé, Skhul and Qafzeh. Patterns of lithic variability and contextual evidence suggest Ar Rasfa was visited intermittently by human populations circulating between lake/river-edge resources in the Rift Valley bottom and woodland habitats along the ridge of the Transjordan Plateau.

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Ghufran Sabri Ahmad and John J. Shea

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Publisher
BAR Publishing
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1407306189
ISBN 13 
9781407306186
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
97