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Reconstructing late Pleistocene human behavior in the Jordan Rift Valley : the middle Paleolithic stone tool assemblage from Ar Rasfa

Title
Reconstructing late Pleistocene human behavior in the Jordan Rift Valley : the middle Paleolithic stone tool assemblage from Ar Rasfa / Ghufran Sabri Ahmad, John J. Shea.
Author
Ahmad, Ghufran Sabri.
Publication
Oxford : Archaeopress : Available from Hadrian Books, 2009.

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Additional Authors
Shea, John J. (John Joseph)
Description
viii, 83 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm
Summary
"Ar Rasfa is a Middle Paleolithic open-air site located in the Rift Valley of Northwest Jordan excavated between 1997-1999. This book presents a detailed technological, typological, and paleoanthropological analysis of the stone tool assemblage from Ar Rasfa. Artifacts reflecting the initial preparation and exploitation of local flint sources dominate the Ar Rasfa assemblage. Typologically, the assemblage is most similar to Levantine Mousterian assemblages such as those from Naamé, Skhul and Qafzeh. Patterns of lithic variability and contextual evidence suggest Ar Rasfa was visited intermittently by human populations circulating between lake/river-edge resources in the Rift Valley bottom and woodland habitats along the ridge of the Transjordan Plateau."--Publisher's website.
Series Statement
BAR international series ; 2042
Uniform Title
BAR international series ; 2042.
Subject
  • Stone implements > Jordan
  • Paleolithic period > Jordan
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Jordan
  • Antiquities
  • Excavations (Archaeology)
  • Paleolithic period
  • Stone implements
  • Mittelpaläolithikum
  • Steingerät
  • Funde
  • Rasfa Site (Jordan)
  • Jordan > Antiquities
  • Jordan
  • Jordan > Rasfa Site
  • Jordantal
Note
  • "This book grew out of Ghufan Ahmad's Master's Thesis research in the Department of Anthropology at Stony Brook University between 2008-2009"--Page viii
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-83).
ISBN
  • 9781407306186
  • 1407306189
LCCN
2010399180
OCLC
  • ocn513792687
  • 513792687
  • SCSB-1543880
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library