Quaternary of the Levant : Environments, Climate Change, and Humans

Yehouda Enzel

ISBN 10: 1107090466 / ISBN 13: 9781107090460

Published by Cambridge University Press Apr 2017, 2017

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Neuware - Over eighty contributions from leading researchers review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution in the Levant.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quaternary of the Levant : Environments, Climate Change, and Humans
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Apr 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107090466
• ISBN 13: 9781107090460
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 286W x 229H x 41D millimeters 286 millimeters width by 229 millimeters height by 41 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1066 grams

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Synopsis

Quaternary of the Levant presents up-to-date research achievements from a region that displays unique interactions between the climate, the environment and human evolution. Focusing on southeast Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel, it brings together over eighty contributions from leading researchers to review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution. Information from 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. 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 being an important reference for archaeologists working in the region.

About the Authors

Yehouda Enzel is a professor and Chair of the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has studied the geomorphology and Quaternary geology of diverse continental environments for over thirty years, as well as aspects of palaeofloods, palaeohydrology, palaeolimnology, dust, loess, and soils. In 2005, Professor Enzel was awarded the Geological Society of America Farouk El-Baz Desert Research Award.

Ofer Bar-Yosef is Emeritus Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Harvard University. He has been involved in a wide range of prehistoric site excavations since 1959, in Israel, Sinai (Egypt), Turkey, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Georgia, and the People's Republic of China. Professor Bar-Yosef has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) since 2001 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy since 2005.