Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Introduction and Overview: Evolutionary Ecology and Archaeology

   • Donald O. Henry

   Pages 1-21

3. Late Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of the Area in the Vicinity of Ras en Naqb

   • Fekri A. Hassan

   Pages 23-31

4. Cultural-Historic Framework

   • Donald O. Henry

   Pages 33-41

5. The Lower Paleolithic Site of Wadi Qalkha

   • Donald O. Henry

   Pages 43-48

6. The Middle Paleolithic Sites

   • Donald O. Henry

   Pages 49-84

7. Lithic Microwear Analysis of Tor Faraj Rockshelter

   • John J. Shea

   Pages 85-105

8. Late Levantine Mousterian Patterns of Adaptation and Cognition

   • Donald O. Henry

   Pages 107-132

9. The Upper Paleolithic Sites

   • Nancy R. Coinman, Donald O. Henry

   Pages 133-214

10. The Qalkhan Occupations

    • Donald O. Henry

    Pages 215-242

11. The Hamran Sites

    • Donald O. Henry

    Pages 243-293

12. The Madamaghan Sites

    • Donald O. Henry, Chen Shen

    Pages 295-317

13. The Natufian Sites and the Emergence of Complex Foraging

    • Donald O. Henry

    Pages 319-335

14. Cultural Evolution and Interaction during the Epipaleolithic

    • Donald O. Henry

    Pages 337-343

15. An Early Neolithic Hunting Camp: Jebel Queisa

    • Donald O. Henry

    Pages 345-352

16. The Timnian and Pastoral Nomadism in the Chalcolithic

    • Donald O. Henry

    Pages 353-374

17. Pollen Analysis: Environmental and Climatic Implications

    • Aline Emery-Barbier

    Pages 375-384

18. Shells from the Wadi Hisma Sites

    • David S. Reese

    Pages 385-390

19. Cementum Increment Analyses of Teeth From Wadi Judayid (J2) And Tor Hamar (J431): Estimations of Site Seasonality

    • Daniel E. Lieberman

    Pages 391-398

20. Preliminary Analysis of Phytoliths from Prehistoric Sites in Southern Jordan

    • Arlene Miller Rosen

    Pages 399-403

Offering the most comprehensive study of southern Jordan, this illuminating account presents detailed data from over a hundred archaeological sites stretching from the Lower Paleotlithic to the Chalcolithic periods. The author uses archaeological and paleoenvironmental evidence to reconstruct synchronic and evolutionary aspects of the cultural ecology of the prehistoric inhabitants of southern Jordan. This study exemplifies that cultural historic and processual approaches are integral to examining prehistoric cultural ecology. Numerous artifact illustrations as well as tables and appendixes containing primary data are included.

• Evolution
• Middle Paleolithic
• Neolithic
• Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• chalcolithic
• cultural ecology
• paleolithic

`Essential for specialists in the very early Near East, and is important and valuable for anyone interested in cultural ecology.'
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• University of Tulsa, Tulsa, USA

  Donald O. Henry

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