Reconstructing Late Pleistocene Human Behaviour in the Jordan Rift Valley: The Middle Paleolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Ar Rasfa (British Archaeological Reports International Series, 2042)

Ahmad, Ghufran Sabri; Shea, John J.

ISBN 10: 1407306189 / ISBN 13: 9781407306186

Published by Oxford, England : Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports, 2010

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viii, 83 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. Ar Rasfa is a Middle Paleolithic open-air site located in the Rift Valley of Northwest Jordan excavated between 1997-1999. This book presents a detailed technological, typological, and paleoanthropological analysis of the stone tool assemblage from Ar Rasfa. Artifacts reflecting the initial preparation and exploitation of local flint sources dominate the Ar Rasfa assemblage. Typologically, the assemblage is most similar to Levantine Mousterian assemblages such as those from Naamé, Skhul and Qafzeh. Patterns of lithic variability and contextual evidence suggest Ar Rasfa was visited intermittently by human populations circulating between lake/river-edge resources in the Rift Valley bottom and woodland habitats along the ridge of the Transjordan Plateau.

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• Title: Reconstructing Late Pleistocene Human Behaviour in the Jordan Rift Valley: The Middle Paleolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Ar Rasfa (British Archaeological Reports International Series, 2042)
• Publisher: Oxford, England : Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1407306189
• ISBN 13: 9781407306186
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Ar Rasfa is a Middle Paleolithic open-air site located in the Rift Valley of Northwest Jordan excavated between 1997-1999. This book presents a detailed technological, typological, and palaeoanthropological analysis of the stone tool assemblage from Ar Rasfa. Artefacts reflecting the initial preparation and exploitation of local flint sources dominate the Ar Rasfa assemblage. Typologically, the assemblage is most similar to Levantine Mousterian assemblages such as those from Naamé, Skhul and Qafzeh. Patterns of lithic variability and contextual evidence suggest Ar Rasfa was visited intermittently by human populations circulating between lake/river-edge resources in the Rift Valley bottom and woodland habitats along the ridge of the Transjordan Plateau.

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Ghufran Sabri Ahmad and John J. Shea