“After 20 Years”: A Taphonomic Re-evaluation of Nahal Hadera V, an Epipalaeolithic Site on the Israeli Coastal Plain

Bar-Oz, Guy; Dayan, Tamar

doi:10.1006/jasc.2001.0684

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“…This result is in line with proportions of adult gazelle observed in modern living populations (Martin, 2000: 25e26). This proportion is also in close agreement with archaeological assemblages from Early EP sites in the Mediterranean Levant, such as Nahal Hadera V (41.1% fused) and Nahal Oren (45.6% fused) (Noy et al, 1973;Bar-Oz and Dayan, 2002). However, it diverges from results obtained from Tor Sageer (75.5% fused) and Torat Tareeq (91.7% fused), both Early EP sites in the Wadi al-Hasa in the western highlands of Jordan (Munro et al, this volume).…”

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Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant

Maher

Macdonald

Allentuck

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Quaternary International

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a b s t r a c tWith a specific focus on eastern Jordan, the Epipalaeolithic Foragers in Azraq Project explores changing hunteregatherer strategies, behaviours and adaptations to this vast area throughout the Late Pleistocene. In particular, we examine how lifeways here (may have) differed from surrounding areas and what circumstances drew human and animal populations to the region. Integrating multiple material cultural and environmental datasets, we explore some of the strategies of these eastern Jordanian groups that resulted in changes in settlement, subsistence and interaction and, in some areas, the occupation of substantial aggregation sites. Five years of excavation at the aggregation site of Kharaneh IV suggest some very intriguing technological and social on-site activities, as well as adaptations to a dynamic landscape unlike that of today. Here we discuss particular aspects of the Kharaneh IV material record within the context of ongoing palaeoenvironmental reconstructions and place these findings in the wider spatial and temporal narratives of the Azraq Basin.

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Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant

Maher

Macdonald

Allentuck

et al. 2016

Quaternary International

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“…The site preserved high densities of artifacts including lithic and groundstone tools. Excavation of Nahal Hadera V was undertaken by Jim Phillips in 1973 and by Avi Gopher and Ran Barkai in 1997-1999 and yielded a well-preserved faunal sample (NISP=19,513) [2].…”

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Gazelle bone fat processing in the Levantine Epipalaeolithic

Munro

Bar-Oz

2005

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…The economy has been reconstructed in very general terms and described as based on hunting and gathering, but details are few. The dominance of mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) and fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica) among the game animals is clear (e.g., Davis, 1982;Bar-Oz and Dayan, 2002a); however, many other species also appear in Kebaran faunal collections (e.g., Saxon et al, 1978;Bar-Oz et al, 1999).…”

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Direct luminescence chronology of the Epipaleolithic Kebaran site of Nahal Hadera V, Israel

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We report direct luminescence ages for the culture-bearing sediments of the Kebaran site of Nahal Hadera V (NHV) in the coastal plain of Israel. Although the site contains, in addition to rich lithic deposits, plentiful mammalian bone, it has proved to be undatable using radiocarbon dating, in spite of the fact that the cultural context places the time of occupation well within the range of radiocarbon dating. In contrast, luminescence dating of the site sediments proved successful. Luminescence ages were determined using the single aliquot additive-dose (SAA) method, applied to sand-sized quartz extracts to determine past equivalent doses (D e ). Dose rates (R) were calculated using thick source alpha counting for the uranium (U) and thorium (Th) concentrations and x-ray fluorescence analysis for the potassium (K 2 0) concentration. Of the five samples collected at the site, four represent cultural and subcultural deposits and the fifth represents the geological substrate for the archaeological deposit, a quartzrich, carbonate-cemented dune sand known as aeolianite or kurkar. The luminescence age of the kurkar is 42.7 Ϯ 6.3 ka. Human occupation of the site occurred between 21.3 ka and 14.0 ka ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum. ᭧

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“After 20 Years”: A Taphonomic Re-evaluation of Nahal Hadera V, an Epipalaeolithic Site on the Israeli Coastal Plain

Cited by 29 publications

References 46 publications

Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant

Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant

Gazelle bone fat processing in the Levantine Epipalaeolithic

Direct luminescence chronology of the Epipaleolithic Kebaran site of Nahal Hadera V, Israel

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