Quaternary of the Levant : environments, climate change, and humans / edited by Yehouda Enzel, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Havard University, Massachusetts.

Other author Enzel, Yehouda, 1955- editor.
Other author Bar-Yosef, Ofer, editor.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
Descriptionxv, 771 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
Subjects
Paleolithic period--Middle East.
Neolithic period--Middle East.
Paleoanthropology--Middle East.
Paleoclimatology--Quaternary.
Paleoecology--Quaternary.

Contents 1. The Quaternary of the Levant : environments, climate change, and humans / Y. Enzel and O. Bar Yosef -- Part I. The evolution of current landscapes and basins. 2. Tectonic and physiographic settings of the Levant / Y. Avni ; 3. Landscape evolution along the Dead Sea fault and its margins / A. Matmon and E. Zilberman ; 4. Climate of the Levant : phenomena and mechanisms / Y. Kushnir, U. Dayan, B. Ziv, E. Morin, and Y. Enzel ; 5. Spatial and temporal patterns of late Cenozoic volcanism in the Levant / Y. Weinstein and A. Heimann ; 6. Palaeomagnetic geochronology of Quaternary sequences in the Levant / R. Shaar and E. Ben-Yosef ; 7. Pliocene or Pleistocene, that is the question : new constraints from the eastern Mediterranean / U. Schattner, G. Lang, and M. Lazar -- Part II. Palaeoclimates. 8. Chronologies of late Quaternary coral reefs and lake sediments from the Red Sea and Dead Sea Rift Valley / M. Stein, B. Lazar, A. Torfstein, and S.L. Goldstein ; 9. Sedimentology of the lacustrine formations in the Dead Sea Basin / N. Waldmann, I. Neugebauer, D. Palchan, E. Hadzhiivanova, N. Taha, A. Brauer, and Y. Enzel ; 10. The Amora Formation, Dead Sea Basin / A. Torfstein ; 11. The stratigraphy and chronology of the Samra Formation / N. Waldmann ; 12. Lake Lisan : the archive of the Last Glacial Levant's hydroclimatology / M. Stein and S.L. Goldstein ; 13. Dead Sea lake level changes and Levant palaeoclimate / A. Torfstein and Y. Enzel ; 14. Pliocene-Pleistocene water bodies and associated deposits in southern Israel and southern Jordan / J.A. Rech, H. Ginat, G.A. Catlett, S. Mischke, E. Winer Tully, and J.S. Pigati ; 15. Quaternary evolution of caves and associated palaeoenviromnents of the southern Levant / A. Frumkin ; 16. Geoarchaeology of Levantine prehistoric caves / P. Goldberg ; 17. Climate and environment reconstructions based on speleothems from the Levant / M. Bar-Matthews, A. Ayalon, A. Vaks, and A. Frumkin ; 18. Speleothems from Lebanon / S. Verheyden, C. Nehme, F.H. Nader, A.R. Farrant, H. Cheng, S.R. Noble, D. Sahy, R.L. Edwards, R. Swennen, Ph. Claeys, and J.-J. Delannoy ; 19. Late Quaternary palaeoenviromnents in northern Levant (Lebanon and Syria) / F. Gasse, E. Van Campo, L. Benedetti, F. Demory, A.L. Develle, D. Kaniewski, K. Tachikawa, N. Thouveny, and L. Vidal -- Part III. Arachaeology of human evolution. 20. 'Ubeidiya / O. Bar-Yosef and M. Belmaker ; 21. Gesher Benot Ya'aqov / N. Goren-Inbar ; 22. Bizat Ruhama / Y. Zaidner ; 23. Qesem Cave and the Acheulo-Yabrudian cultural complex of the Levant / A. Gopher and R. Barkai ; 24. Tabun Cave in the Carmel culture sphere / A. Ronen ; 25. Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel / M. Weinstein-Evron, Y. Zaidner, A. Tsatskin, R. Yeshurun, and I. Hershkovitz ; 26. Hayonim Cave / O. Bar-Yosef, B. Arensburg, A. Belfer-Cohen, P. Goldberg, L. Meignen, M.C. Stiner, N.D. Munro, and S. Weiner ; 27. Kebara Cave / L. Meignen, O. Bar-Yosef, A. Belfer-Cohen, J.D. Speth and B. Vandermeersch ; 28. Qafzeh Cave and terrace / B. Vandermeersch and O. Bar-Yosef ; 29. Palaeolithic occupations in Nahal Amud / E. Hovers, M. Ullman, and Y. Rak ; 30. The Palaeolithic sequence of Ksar 'Akil, Lebanon / C. Bergman, J. Williams, K. Douka, and D. Schyle ; 31. The early Upper Palaeolithic of Manot Cave, western Galilee : chrono-cultural, subsistence, and palaeo-environmental reconstruction / O. Marder, I. Hershkovitz, and O. Barzilai ; 32. Mughr el-Hamamah : an early Upper Palaeolithic cave site on the eastern Jordan Valley flanks / A.J. Stutz and L. Nilsson Stutz ; 33. Ohalo II : a 23,000-year-old fisher-hunter-gatherer's camp on the shore of fluctuating Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) / D. Nadel ; 34. Eynan (Ain Mallaha) / F.R. Valla, H. Khalaily, N. Samuelian, F. Bocquentin, A. Bridault, and R. Rabinovich ; 35. Hilazon Tachtit Cave, a late Natufian burial site in the western Lower Galilee, Israel / L. Grosman and N.D. Munro ; 36. The Palaeolithic cultural sequence of Dederiyeh Cave, Syria / T. Akazawa and Y. Nishiaki ; 37. Survey and excavation of Stone Age sites in Jordan's Wadi al-Hasa: 1979-2012 / G.A. Clark, N.R. Coinman, J.B. Hill, M.P. Neeley, D.I. Olszewski, J.D. Peterson, and J. Schuldenrein -- Part IV. Palaeoecology. 38. Palaeolithic vegetal diet in the southern Levant : the archaeobotanical evidence / E. Weiss ; 39. Pollen as palaeoclimate indicators in the Levant / T. Litt and C. Ohlwein ; 40. The archaeozoological record in a changing environment of the late middle to the late Pleistocene / R. Rabinovich ; 41. Biogeography and palaeoecology of the early Pleistocene large mammals in the Levant / M. Belmaker ; 42. The kaleidoscope of mammalian faunas during the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene in the southern Levant / G. Bar-Oz and L. Weissbrod ; 43. Fish exploitation during the Quaternary: recent knowledge / I. Zohar ; 44. The exploitation of aquatic resources during the Quaternary / D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer ; 45. Fossil-based reconstructions of ancient water bodies in the Levantine deserts / S. Mischke, H. Ginat, B. Salem Al-Saqarat, G. Faershtein, N. Porat, P. Braun, and J.A. Rech -- Part V. Quaternary geomorphology. 46. Cosmogenic-isotope based erosion rates along the western margin of the Dead Sea fault / A. Matmon ; 47. Palaeogeography and palaeohydrology of fluvial systems in the Levant, southeastern Mediterranean / N. Greenbaum and E. Zilberman ; 48. Quaternary fluvial environments and palaeohydrology in Syria / T. Oguchi, Y.S. Hayakawa, and C.T. Oguchi ; 49. Stable carbon and oxygen isotope signatures of pedogenic carbonates in arid and extremely arid environments in the Levant / A. Ayalon, R. Amit, Y. Enzel, O. Crouvi, and M. Harel ; 50. Evolution of the southeastern Mediterranean coastal plain / M. Harel, R. Amit, N. Porat, and Y. Enzel ; 51. Middle-late Quaternary wetlands along the coastal plain of Israel / D. Sivan and N. Greenbaum ; 52. The fluvial systems : studies of stream terraces in the Negev highland and their relationship with the Levant alluvial chronologies / Y. Avni, G. Faershtein, and N. Porat ; 53. Loess in the Negev Desert : sources, loessial soils, palaeosols, and palaeoclimatic implications / O. Crouvi, R. Amit, M. Ben Israel, and Y. Enzel ; 54. Isotopic tracers of dust and loess in the Levant / Y. Erel, S.L. Goldstein, A. Torfstein, D. Palchan, M. Ben Israel, and M. Stein ; 55. Loess, dunes, and human activities / N. Goring-Morris ; 56. Late Quaternary chronologies of the northern Sinai/northwestern Negev dunefield and their palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental implications / J. Roskin and H. Tsoar ; 57. Aridisols in the southern Levant deserts and their palaeoclimate implications / R. Amit, Y. Enzel, O. Crouvi, and A. Ayalon ; 58. Quaternary sediments and soils of Jordan : palaeoclimatic and geoarchaeological implications / C.E. Cordova and C.J.H. Ames -- Part VI. Humans in the Levant. 59. The Acheulian of the Levant / G. Sharon ; 60. The Palaeolithic sequence in southeast Turkey / S.L. Kuhn, M.C. Stiner, and I. Baykara ; 61. Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of Lebanon / A. Shaw ; 62. The Lower Palaeolithic of Syria / J.-M. Le Tensorer ; 63. The Lower Palaeolithic of Jordan / G.O. Rollefson ; 64. The Middle Palaeolithic of southern Jordan / D.O. Henry ; 65. Middle Palaeolithic open-air sites / E. Hovers ; 66. A hominid 'archetype' / Y. Rak ; 67. Neanderthals and modern humans in the Levant: an overview / A.-M. Tillier and B. Arensburg ; 68. Human fossils from the Upper Palaeolithic through the early Holocene / I. Hershkovitz and B. Arensburg ; 69. The initial Upper Palaeolithic in the Levant / D.I. Olszewski ; 70. The Upper Palaeolithic in Cisjordan / A. Belfer-Cohen and A.N. Goring-Morris ; 71. The early and middle Epipalaeolithic of Cisjordan / A.N. Goring-Morris and A. Belfer-Cohen ; 72. The early Epipalaeolithic in the eastern Levant : Wadi al-Hasa region / D.I. Olszewski ; 73. The Upper and Epipalaeolithic of southern Jordan / D.O. Henry ; 74. The Upper and Epipalaeolithic of the Azraq Basin, Jordan / B.F. Byrd and A.N. Garrard ; 75. Late Quaternary refugia, aggregations, and palaeoenvironments in the Azraq Basin, Jordan / L.A. Maher ; 76. The Epipalaeolithic and pre-pottery Neolithic of Lebanon / A.N. Garrard ; 77. The Natufian culture : the harbinger of food-producing societies / L. Grosman and N.D. Munro ; 78. The Natufian period in Syria / J.J. Ibáñez, J. González-Urquijo, and X. Terradas ; 79. Natufian and early Neolithic in the Black Desert, eastern Jordan / T. Richter ; 80. The archaeology of early farming in southeast Turkey / M. Özdoğan ; 81. Early agriculture in the southern Levant / M.E. Kislev and O. Simchoni ; 82. Domesticating plants in the Near East / A. Gopher, S. Lev-Yadun, and S. Abbo ; 83. The Neolithic of southern Jordan / B. Finlayson and C. Makarewicz ; 84. The beginning of animal domestication and husbandry in southwest Asia / J.-D. Vigne, L. Gourichon, D. Helmer, L. Martin, and J. Peters ; 85. Environmental change and society in Holocene prehistory / A.M. Rosen and S.A Rosen.
Abstract "Quaternary of the Levant presents extensive and up-to-date research from a region that displays unique interactions between climate, the environment and human evolution. Focusing primarily on southeast Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel, it brings together more than 80 contributions from the field's leading researchers. Together they review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution. Information from key prehistoric sites and palaeoanthropological studies contributing to our understanding of "out of Africa" migrations, Neanderthals, cultures of modern humans and the origins of agriculture, are assessed within the context of glacial-interglacial cycles, marine isotope cycles, plate tectonics, geochronology, geomorphology, palaeoecology and genetics. The book is divided into five parts: The Evolution of Current Landscapes and Basins; Archaeology of Human Evolution; Palaeoecology; Landscapes of Rift, Coastal Plain, Alluvial Streams, Loess and Soils; and Humans in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Complemented by overview summaries that draw together the findings of each chapter, the resulting coverage is wide-ranging and cohesive. The cross-disciplinary nature of the volume makes it an invaluable resource for academics and advanced students of Quaternary science and human prehistory, as well as an important reference for archaeologists working in the region"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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