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Reconstructing Late Pleistocene Human Behavior in the Jordan Rift Valley: The Middle Paleolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Ar Rasfa

Reconstructing Late Pleistocene Human Behavior in the Jordan Rift Valley: The Middle Paleolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Ar Rasfa

The Middle Paleolithic stone tool assemblage from Ar Rasfa

by Ghufran Sabri Ahmad and John J Shea
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/12/2009

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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 palaeoanthropological analysis of the stone tool assemblage from Ar Rasfa. Artefacts 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 Naame, 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.
ISBN:
9781407306186
9781407306186
Category:
Archaeology by period / region
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
31-12-2009
Publisher:
BAR Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
97
Dimensions (mm):
297x210x5mm
Weight:
0.39kg

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