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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Southern Levant."”.
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Estimating population parameters of early villages in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic central and southern Levant
… reconstructing the trajectories of central and southern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) villages during the Neolithic Demographic Transition (NDT). Whilst pre-existing population estimates of PPN villages have made a valuable contribution to our understanding of the Neolithic, these are …
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Does culture evolve?: testing evolutionary theories of culture through a case study of El Khiam points from three sites in the Pre Pottery Neolithic A of the Southern Levant
… contrasting sites of the early Neolithic in the Levant. Two complementary analytical techniques, variation and phylogenetic analysis, are applied to examine the patterns of attributes of El Khiam points. Variation analysis, specifically the coefficient of variation, is used to show patterns of …
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Umm Meshrat I and II : two Late Neolithic sites along the Wadi ath-Thamad, Jordan
… with other Late Neolithic sites in the southern Levant. The analysis demonstrated that both sites exhibit characteristics typical of the Late Neolithic period. Among the chipped stone assemblage, these typical artifacts include tile knives, ha-Parsa points, burins, drill bits on spalls, …
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Visible Dead: Ancestral Landscapes in Prehistory between the Mediterranean and the Near East
… studies from the Early Bronze Age Caucasus and Southern Levant. The best approximation of the reality experienced by past subjects will be modeled using a semantic approach to movement, and a cache of visibility analyses within a 3D GIS to verify the visual impact of the selected necropolises …
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Unmasked equalities: An examination of mortuary practices and social complexity in the Levantine Natufian and Pre-pottery Neolithic
… Natufian and Pre-pottery Neolithic sites in the southern Levant. The analysis focuses on selected dependent variables such as primary or secondary state, position, orientation, location, skull presence or absence, and grave goods presence or absence. It analyzes their frequency against such …
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A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Storage and Surplus at Tel Tsaf, Israel
The Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant spans from c. 5800 - 3600 cal BC. Traditional hallmarks of this period include caches of copper items, non-domestic shrine sites and large off site cemeteries or burial caves. However, these features date to the later portion of the period (Late …
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Hunting and herding in a semi-arid region : an archaeozoological and ethological analysis of the faunal remains from the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic of the eastern Jordanian steppe.
… and palaeoenvironmental background of the southern Levant; reviews subsistence evidence and models for the periods concerned; and describes the study area and sites. The second section concerns methodological approaches. A model of gazelle ethology for prehistoric eastern Jordan is …
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Enduring Traditions: The Collared Pithos of Transjordan
… ovaloid, ceramic storage vessel peculiar to the southern Levant. Through the data that has emerged from Cisjordan a general consensus has developed that the collared pithos is part of an Iron Age 1 tradition that ended in the early years of the Iron Age 2. The data from Transjordan, however, is …
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Ties that bind: investigating Hyksos provenance and migration using dental morphology.
… a biological closeness with sites along the Levantine coast (such as Ugarit and Sidon), but the only site to indicate significant similarity was the Southern Levantine site of Pella on the Jordan River. No other comparative site from the Southern Levant exhibited similar closeness, pointing …
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Pottery Horizons of the Jalul Ceramic Assemblage in the Iron Age IIA-C from Square G4 in its Historical and Geographical Context
… and low chronology of the Iron Age in Southern Levant using pottery as one of their main pieces of evidence. Both approaches disagree in regards to the dates assigned to the early Iron Age II pottery. To achieve a better understanding of the problem, the still rudimentary knowledge of …
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Ritual threads : cultic evidence related to household textile production at Iron Age Tell Halif.
… biblical texts, and contemporary Iron Age Levantine textile industries are informative to retrieve cultic evidence related to household textile production at Iron Age Tell Halif. Ancient Near Eastern textual and circumstantial evidence points to an association of high quality textiles with …