The archaeological record is a combination of what is seen by eye, as well as the
microscopic record revealed with the help of instrumentation. The information embedded in …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

The major social and economic changes associated with the rise of a sedentary lifestyle and
the gradual transition to food production in the southern Levant are often considered to have …

In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over the last three million
years hominins' technological strategies shifted from occasional tool use, much like that …

This paper presents a Levantine model for the origins of cultivation of various wild plants as
motivated by the vagaries of the climatic fluctuation of the Younger Dryas within the context …

The study comprises an experimentally based investigation of interaction between temporal
change in the morphology of microlithic tools and transformations in projectile technology …

The use of beads and other personal ornaments is a trait of modern human behavior. During
the Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods, beads were made out of shell, bone, ivory, egg …

The Natufian culture is of great importance as a starting point to investigate the dynamics of
the transition to agriculture. Given its chronological position at the threshold of the Neolithic …

Nineteen broken and complete bone fish hooks and six grooved stones recovered from the
Epipaleolithic site of Jordan River Dureijat in the Hula Valley of Israel represent the largest …

Measuring subsistence intensification in the archaeofaunal record has provided strong
evidence for socioeconomic shifts related to sedentarization in the terminal Pleistocene …