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The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the southern Levant: New insights from the late Middle Paleolithic site of Far’ah II, Israel
- Source :
- Quaternary Science Reviews. 237:106304
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Far’ah II is an open-air site in the north western Negev desert (Israel). Previous excavations in the 1970’s revealed a rich, in situ Middle Paleolithic (MP) assemblage composed of flint and limestone artifacts, animal bones and charcoal. Renewed excavation at the site were undertaken in 2017, to re-date it and provide a more accurate constrain to the sites’ age, as well as collect samples for paleoclimatic proxies. Our new Optically Stimulated Luminescence and 14C ages together with the stable oxygen isotope signature of the loess sediments, constrain the age of the upper archaeological horizon to
- Subjects :
- 010506 paleontology
Archeology
Global and Planetary Change
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Horizon (archaeology)
Southern Levant
Pleistocene
Geology
Excavation
01 natural sciences
Archaeology
Middle Paleolithic
Loess
Upper Paleolithic
Assemblage (archaeology)
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02773791
- Volume :
- 237
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Quaternary Science Reviews
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2350851274cac778f49160322f342faa