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The Pre‐Natufian Epipaleolithic: Long‐term Behavioral Trends in the Levant
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The cultural and biological developments of the EP period leading up to the Natufian are traced and the long‐term trajectory of culture change, social complexity, and village life in the Near East is considered.
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Paleoclimatic and archeological implications of Pleistocene and Holocene environments in Azraq, Jordan
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Interaction before Agriculture: Exchanging Material and Sharing Knowledge in the Final Pleistocene Levant
This article discusses social interaction in the Epipalaeolithic of southwest Asia. Discussions of contact, social relationships and social organization have primarily focused on the Pre-Pottery…
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Twenty Thousand-Year-Old Huts at a Hunter-Gatherer Settlement in Eastern Jordan
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Work at the Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic aggregation site of Kharaneh IV in eastern Jordan highlights that some of these earlier sites were large aggregation base camps not unlike those of the Natufian and contributes to ongoing debates on their duration of occupation.
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20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia
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It is suggested that by appreciating a given locale's place in the regional hydroscape, more robust links to climate can be made where appropriate and interpretations drawn will demand the resolution of factors acting across multiple scales.
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Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the origins of bread 14,400 years ago in northeastern Jordan
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Analysis of charred food remains from Shubayqa 1, a Natufian hunter-gatherer site located in northeastern Jordan, provides empirical data to demonstrate that the preparation and consumption of bread-like products predated the emergence of agriculture by at least 4,000 years.
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NEW LIGHT ON FINAL PLEISTOCENE SETTLEMENT DIVERSITY IN THE AZRAQ BASIN (JORDAN): RECENT EXCAVATIONS AT 'AYN QASIYYA
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Cet article presente un resume du travail sur ce site and il fournit les resultats preliminaires de l’analyse de the faune, des artefacts and des restes humains dans le contexte of the sequence culturelle locale and regionale a la fi n du Pleistocene.
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Herded and hunted goat genomes from the dawn of domestication in the Zagros Mountains
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Goat assemblages from Ganj Dareh and Tepe Abdul Hosein, two Aceramic Neolithic Zagros sites, are assessed, indicating that these goats were genetically diverse and ancestral to later domestic goats and already distinct from wild goats.
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Close companions: Early evidence for dogs in northeast Jordan and the potential impact of new hunting methods
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"Founder crops" v. wild plants: Assessing the plant-based diet of the last hunter-gatherers in southwest Asia
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