The oldest ever brush hut plant remains from Ohalo II, Jordan Valley, Israel (19,000 BP)

Antiquity

Volumn 73, Issue 282, 1999, Pages 755-764

  Nadel, Dani ^a   Werker, Ella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Architecture; Brush hut; Camp site; Epipalaeolithic; Israel; Plant remains

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000479771     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00065509     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. ARENSBURG, B. & O. BAR-YOSEF. 1973. Human remains from Ein Gev I, Jordan Valley, Israel, Paléorient 1: 201-6.
2. BAR-YOSEF, O. 1978. Man - an outline of the prehistory of the Kinneret area, in C. Serruya (ed.), Monographiae Biologicae 32: 447-64. The Hague.
3. BAR-YOSEF, O. & A. BELFER-COHEN. 1989. The origins of sedentism and farming communities in the Levant. Journal of World Prehistory 3(4): 447-98.
4. 1992. From foraging to farming in the Mediterranean Levant, in A.B. Gebauer & T.D. Price (ed.), Transitions to agriculture in prehistory: 21-48. Madison (WI): Prehistory Press.
5. BELMAKER, M., D. NADEL & E. TCHERNOV. 1998. Microfauna and paleoecological research in open air archaeological sites. A paper presented at the 4th International Conference of Archaeozoology of South-West Asia and Adjacent Areas, 29 June-3 July, Paris.
6. GARRARD, A.N., D. BAIRD & B.F. BYRD. 1994. The chronological basis and significance of the late Palaeolithic and Neolithic sequence in the Azraq Basin, Jordan, in O. Bar-Yosef & R. Kra (ed.), Late Quaternary chronology and palaeoclimates of the Eastern Mediterranean: 177-99. Tuscon (AZ): Radiocarbon.
7. GARRARD, A.N., D. BAIRD & B.F. BYRD. 1994. The chronological basis and significance of the late Palaeolithic and Neolithic sequence in the Azraq Basin, Jordan, in O. Bar-Yosef & R. Kra (ed.), Late Quaternary chronology and palaeoclimates of the Eastern Mediterranean: 177-99. Tuscon (AZ): Radiocarbon.
8. GORING-MORRIS, A.N. 1995. Complex hunter-gatherers at the end of the Palaeolithic (20,000-10,000 BP), in T.E. Levi (ed.), The archaeology of society in the Holy Land: 141-64. London: Leicester University Press.
9. HENRY, D.O. 1989. From foraging to agriculture, The Levant at the end of the Ice Age. Philadelphia (PA): University of Pennsylvania Press.
10. HERSHKOVITZ, I., G. EDELSON, M.S. SPIERS, B. ARENSBURG., D. NADEL & B. LEVI. 1993. Ohalo II man - unusual findings in the anterior rib cage and shoulder girdle of a 19,000 years-old specimen, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 3: 177-88.
11. HERSHKOVITZ, I., M.S. SPIERS, D. FRAYER, D. NADEL, S. WISH-BARATZ & B. ARENSBURG. 1995. Ohalo II - a 19.000 years old skeleton from a water-logged site at the Sea of Galilee, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 96(3): 215-34.
12. KISLEV, M.E., D. NADEL & I. CARMI. 1992. Epipalaeolithic (19,000 BP) cereal and fruit diet at Ohalo II, Sea of Galilee, Israel, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 73(1-4): 161-6.
13. LEROI-GOURHAN, A. & M. BREZILLON. 1972. Fouilles de Pincevent: Essai d'analyse ethnographique d'un habitat Magdalénien (la section 36). Paris: C.N.R.S. VIIe Supplément à Gallia Préhistoire.
14. LIEBERMAN, D.E. 1993. The rise and fall of seasonal mobility among hunter-gatherers, Current Anthropology 34(5): 599-631.
15. LIPSCHITZ, N. & D. NADEL. 1997. Charred wood remains from Ohalo II (19,000 BP), Sea of Galilee, Israel, Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 27: 5-18.
16. MARKS, A. (ed.). 1976. Prehistory and palaeoenvironments in the Central Negev, Israel 1. Dallas (TX): SMU Press.
17. (Ed.). 1977. Prehistory and palaeoenvironments in the Central Negev, Israel 2. Dallas (TX): SMU Press.
18. NADEL, D. 1994. Levantine Upper Palaeolithic-Early Epipalaeolithic burial customs: Ohalo II as a case study, Paléorient 20(1): 113-21.
19. 1995. The visibility of prehistoric burials in the Southern Levant: how rare are the Upper Palaeolithic/Early Epipalaeolithic graves? in S. Campbell & A. Green (ed.), The archaeology of death in the ancient Near East: 1-8. Oxford: Oxbow. Monograph 51.
20. 1996. The organization of space in a fisher-hunter-gatherers' camp at Ohalo II, Israel, in M. Otte (ed.), Nature et culture: 373-88. Liege: University of Liège. E.R.A.U.L. 68.
21. 1997. The spatial organization of prehistoric sites in the Jordan Valley: Kebaran, Natufian and Neolithic case studies. Unpublished Ph.D thesis. The Hebrew University. Jerusalem. (In Hebrew.)
22. In press. The scalene triangles from Ohalo II, Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society
23. NADEL, D., I. CARMI & D. SEGAL. 1995. Radiocarbon dating of Ohalo II: archaeological and methodological implications, Journal of Archaeological Science 22(6): 811-22.
24. NADEL, D., A. DANIN, E. WERKER, T. SCHICK, M.E. KISLEV & K. STEWART. 1994. 19,000 years-old twisted fibers from Ohalo II, Current Anthropology 35(4): 451-8.
25. NADEL, D. & I. HERSHKOVITZ. 1991. New subsistence data and human remains from the earliest Levantine Epipalaeolithic, Current Anthropology 32(5): 631-5.
26. RABINOVITCH, R. 1998. Patterns of animal exploitation and subsistence in Israel, during the Upper Palaeolithic and EpiPalaeolithic (40,000-12,500 BP), based upon selected case studies. Unpublished Ph.D thesis, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
27. RABINOVITCH, R. & D. NADEL. 1994-5. Bone tools from Ohalo II - a morphological and functional study, , Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 26: 32-62.
28. SIMCHONI, O. 1997. Reconstruction of the landscape and human economy 19,000 BP in the Upper Jordan Valley by the Botanical Remains Found at Ohalo II. Unpublished Ph.D thesis, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Can. (In Hebrew.)
29. SIMMONS, T. & D. NADEL. 1998. The avifauna of the early Epipalaeolithic site of Ohalo II (19,400 BP), Israel: species diversity, habitat and seasonality, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 8(2): 79-96.
30. SOFFER, O. & N.D. PRASLOV (ed.). 1993. From Kostenki to Clovis. Upper Palaeolithic-PalaeoIndian adaptations. New York (NY): Plenum Press.
31. SPENCER, B. & F.J. GILLEN. 1998 [1898] (renewed print). The natives of central Australia. New York (NY): Dover Publications Inc.
32. VALLA, F.R. 1988. Aspects du sol de l'abri 131 de Mallaha (Eynan), Paléorient 14(2): 283-96.
33. YELLEN, J.E. 1976. Archaeological approaches to the present. New York: Academic Press.