Intensification and sedentism in the terminal Pleistocene Natufian sequence of el-Wad Terrace (Israel)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-35

  Yeshurun, Reuven ^a,b   Bar Oz, Guy ^a   Weinstein Evron, Mina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Broad spectrum revolution; Contextual taphonomy; Epipaleolithic; Levant; Mobility; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MOBILITY; PALEOLITHIC; SUBSISTENCE; TAPHONOMY;

HAIFA [ISRAEL]; ISRAEL; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MOUNT CARMEL;

ANIMALIA;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; CHRONOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; ISRAEL;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEOLOGY; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; ISRAEL;

EID: 84899119493     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.02.011     Document Type: Article

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