Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel : the Middle and Upper Paleolithic archaeology. Part II /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 2019.
Description:	xxiv, 455 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	American School of Prehistoric Research bulletin ; 51 Bulletin (American School of Prehistoric Research) ; no. 51.
Subject:	Mousterian culture -- Israel -- Carmel, Mount, Region. Paleolithic period -- Israel -- Carmel, Mount, Region. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Israel -- Carmel, Mount, Region. Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) Mousterian culture. Paleolithic period. Kebara Cave (Israel) Carmel, Mount, Region (Israel) -- Antiquities. Israel -- Kebara Cave. Israel -- Mount Carmel Region.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12007662

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Other authors / contributors:	Meignen, Liliane, editor. Bar-Yosef, Ofer, editor. Arensburg, Baruch, author.
ISBN:	9780873655545 0873655540
Notes:	Part I published as American School of Prehistoric Research bulletin no. 49, 2007. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	The remains from Skhul, Qafzeh, Amud, and Kebara caves in Israel provide evidence for the possible contemporaneity and eventual replacement of several distinct hominin populations over time: early Archaic-Modern humans by Neanderthals, and Neanderthals by Modern humans. Kebara Cave, which dates to 65,000 to 48,000 years ago, is well known for its Neanderthal remains and marvelously preserved archaeological record. Dense concentrations of fireplaces and ash lenses and rich assemblages of stone tools, animal bones, and charred plant remains testify to repeated and intensive use of the cave by late Middle Paleolithic foragers. This second and final volume of the Kebara Cave site report presents findings from nine years of excavation and analysis of the archaeology, paleontology, human remains, and lithic industries from the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods. Its full documentation of the daily activities of the cave?s Neanderthal inhabitants clearly indicates behavioral patterns generally attributed only to Modern humans. The two volumes on Kebara Cave provide a cornerstone for the story of humankind in a critical geographic region: the continental crossroads between Africa and Eurasia in the Levant. ISBN Part I (2008): 9780873655538.

Table of Contents:

The Mousterian lithic assemblages from Kebara Cave / Liliane Meignen
Dietary and health issues of the inhabitants of the Middle Paleolithic Kebara Cave / Mordechai E. Kislev and Efrain Lev
Kebara as a late Pleistocene settlement : insights from the ungulate remains / John D. Speth
Seasonality of Kebara's Middle Paleolithic occupations : a cementum increment analysis / William Rendu and John D. Speth
The avifauna of Kebara Middle Paleolithic : peloecology and environmental implications / Miriam Belmaker
The burial of the Kebara 2 Mousterian individual / Ofer Bar-Yosef, Liliane Meignen, Bernard Vandermeersch, Paul Goldberg, and Anna Belfer-Cohen
What can we learn from the Mousterian Kebara hominins? / Baruch Arensburg and Anne-Marie Tillier
The Upper Paleolithic industries of Kebara Cave / Ofer Bar-Yosef and Anna Belfer-Cohen
Mollusk shells at Kebara Cave / Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer
Changes in the use of Kebara Cave during the Middle Paleolithic / Liliane Meignen, John D. Speth, and Ofer Bar-Yosef.

Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel : the Middle and Upper Paleolithic archaeology. Part II /

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