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Human paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor / Naama Goren-Inbar and John D. Speth, editors.

Contributor(s): Goren-Inbar, N | Speth, John DMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxbow Books, c2004. Description: xviii, 220 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cmISBN: 1842171550 (pbk.)Subject(s): Prehistoric peoples -- Middle East -- Congresses | Paleoecology -- Pleistocene -- Congresses | Paleoecology -- Middle East -- Congresses | Human ecology -- Middle East -- Congresses | Human evolution -- Middle East -- Congresses | Human beings -- Middle East -- Congresses | Prehistoric peoples -- Middle East | Paleoecology -- Pleistocene | Paleoecology -- Middle East | Human ecology -- Middle East | Human evolution -- Middle East | Middle East -- Antiquities -- Congresses | Middle East -- AntiquitiesLOC classification: GN857 | .H8 2004
Contents:
The Levantine waterway, riparian archaeology, paleolimnology, and conservation / Dov F. Por -- Quaternary lake margins of the Levant Rift Valley / Craig S. Feibel -- Hippos, pigs, bovids, saber-toothed tigers, monkeys, and hominids : dispersals through the Levantine Corridor during late Pliocene and early Pleistocene times / Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro -- Ecological interactions of elephantids in Pleistocene Eurasia : Palaeoloxodon and Mammuthus / Adrian M. Lister -- Long-term continuity of a freshwater turtle (Mauremys caspica rivulata) population in the northern Jordan Valley and its paleoenvironmental implications / Gideon Hartman -- Early hominid subsistence in the Levant : taphonomic studies of the Plio-Pleistocene 'Ubeidiya Formation (Israel) - evidence from 'Ubeidiya layer II-24 / Sabine Gaudzinski -- Bands and other corporate hominid groups in Acheulian culture / Emanuel Marx -- Culture and genes in the evolution of human language / Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka -- Climate variability in the Levant and northeast Africa during the late Quaternary based on marine and land records / Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Miryam Bar-Matthews and Avner Ayalon -- Dental pathology, stressful events, and disease in Levantine early anatomically modern humans : evidence from Qafzeh / Anne-Marie Tillier ... [et al.] -- Hunting pressure, subsistence intensification, and demographic change in the Levantine late Middle Paleolithic / John D. Speth -- Wetland drainage in the Levant (Lake Hula, Amik Gölü, and el-Azraq Oasis) : impact on avian fauna / Shoshana Ashkenazi -- "A feather for each wind that blows" : utilizing avifauna in assessing changing patterns in paleoecology and subsistence at Jordan Valley archaeological sites / Tal Simmons --
Natufian behavior in the Hula Basin : the question of territoriality / François R. Valla.
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Based on an international conference held at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in July 2002.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Levantine waterway, riparian archaeology, paleolimnology, and conservation / Dov F. Por -- Quaternary lake margins of the Levant Rift Valley / Craig S. Feibel -- Hippos, pigs, bovids, saber-toothed tigers, monkeys, and hominids : dispersals through the Levantine Corridor during late Pliocene and early Pleistocene times / Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro -- Ecological interactions of elephantids in Pleistocene Eurasia : Palaeoloxodon and Mammuthus / Adrian M. Lister -- Long-term continuity of a freshwater turtle (Mauremys caspica rivulata) population in the northern Jordan Valley and its paleoenvironmental implications / Gideon Hartman -- Early hominid subsistence in the Levant : taphonomic studies of the Plio-Pleistocene 'Ubeidiya Formation (Israel) - evidence from 'Ubeidiya layer II-24 / Sabine Gaudzinski -- Bands and other corporate hominid groups in Acheulian culture / Emanuel Marx -- Culture and genes in the evolution of human language / Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka -- Climate variability in the Levant and northeast Africa during the late Quaternary based on marine and land records / Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Miryam Bar-Matthews and Avner Ayalon -- Dental pathology, stressful events, and disease in Levantine early anatomically modern humans : evidence from Qafzeh / Anne-Marie Tillier ... [et al.] -- Hunting pressure, subsistence intensification, and demographic change in the Levantine late Middle Paleolithic / John D. Speth -- Wetland drainage in the Levant (Lake Hula, Amik Gölü, and el-Azraq Oasis) : impact on avian fauna / Shoshana Ashkenazi -- "A feather for each wind that blows" : utilizing avifauna in assessing changing patterns in paleoecology and subsistence at Jordan Valley archaeological sites / Tal Simmons --

Natufian behavior in the Hula Basin : the question of territoriality / François R. Valla.