An Early Upper Palaeolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Mughr El-Hamamah, Jordan: An Interim Report

Shea, J.J.; Stutz, Aaron Jonas; Stutz, Liv Nilsson

doi:10.1080/00934690.2019.1655519

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“…This analysis only includes sites unequivocally attributed to the Early Ahmarian in the literature. As stressed on different occasions (Sauer & Riede, 2018;Shea, 2014;Shea et al, 2019), named stone tool industries obscure variability by forcing the application of classificatory systems. The notion of ethnicity is not intended by the use of the term "Early Ahmarian".…”

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“…seems to be more widely spread with occurrences in Ahmarian sites in the Transjordan escarpments and the south of the Sinai Peninsula. At Manot Cave, but also in other Early Ahmarian sites, deer (more specifically at Manot Cave: Dama mesopotamica) had been hunted alongside mountain gazelles (Shea et al, 2019;Yeshurun et al, 2019). Yeshurun et al interpret this as an indicator for the mosaic of both forested and (Martin, 2000;Rabinovich, 2003).…”

Section: Gazelle Deer and Their Environmentmentioning

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“…In this analysis, only sites which were attributed unequivocally to the Early Ahmarian by the authors were included. Sites like Mughr El-Hamamah (Belmaker et al, 2014;Shea et al, 2019), Raqefet (Lengyel, 2007) or Tor Fawaz (Kerry & Henry, 2003) were not included due to the atypical characteristics of the assemblages.…”

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“…However, numerous sites (Fig. 1, Online Resource 1) of the Early Ahmarian cultural unit reflect the exploitation of small to mediumsized ungulates (Hooijer, 1961;Kuhn et al, 2009;Lieberman, 1995;Phillips, 1988;Rabinovich, 2003Rabinovich, , 2017Richter et al, 2020;Shea et al, 2019;Yeshurun et al, 2019). Particularly in the arid southern and south-eastern parts of the Early Ahmarian, steppic vegetation promotes the dominant presence of Gazella subgutturosa in the archaeological assemblages.…”

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Gazelle Hunting Strategies in the Early Ahmarian: Close-Range Visuospatial Characteristics of Site Locations Indicate Spatially Focused Hunting Strategies on Gazella sp. During the Early Ahmarian

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Schoenenberg

2021

J Paleo Arch

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Visual conditions around Palaeolithic sites determine how the landscape was perceived by prehistoric hunter-gatherers. By placing the site in different landscapes, different visual foci were encoded in the locational characteristics of the different places. For the Early Ahmarian sites in the Levant, it can be shown that visual characteristics differ significantly with the combination of large ungulate prey exploited at the respective location. A Higuchi viewshed approach was combined with total viewsheds of the study area to introduce a human scale into the viewshed modelling. While diverse prey locations in the Mediterranean biome provide an overview over the landscape, specialised prey locations in the steppe biomes of the Irano-Turanian and Saharo-Arabian biome have their focus on the immediate vicinity of the sites. This correlates with the placement of sites in the context of highly humid environments which can be best exemplified with the site of Al-Ansab 1 in the escarpments of the Jordanian Rift Valley. Here, the environmental conditions acted as a magnet, focusing gazelles on the migration between different environments.

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Gazelle Hunting Strategies in the Early Ahmarian: Close-Range Visuospatial Characteristics of Site Locations Indicate Spatially Focused Hunting Strategies on Gazella sp. During the Early Ahmarian

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Schoenenberg

2021

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“…Interestingly, neither Kebara nor Manot has yielded IUP assemblages to date, and the assemblages at both sites belong to the northern Ahmarian variant (Abulafia et al, (in press); Kadowaki et al, 2015). In addition, a lithic assemblage from Mughr el-Hamamah (MHM) Layer B, dated to 45-39 ka cal BP (Stutz et al, 2015), has been designated as a variant of the Ahmarian (Shea et al, 2019). Accepting these dates means the contemporaneity of the Ahmarian at Kebara/Manot/MHM and the IUP in other areas in the Levant such as southern Jordan and the Negev.…”

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Lithic Technology and Chronology of Initial Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at Tor Fawaz, Southern Jordan

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The Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) is a key chrono-cultural concept in our understanding of the cultural and population dynamics at the transition from the Middle Paleolithic to Upper Paleolithic period. This paper presents technological and chronological analyses of lithic assemblages from a rockshelter site at Tor Fawaz in the Jebel Qalkha area, southern Jordan, to provide accurate dating and detailed recognition of the IUP variability in the Levant. We present integrated micromorphological, phytolith, and dung spherulite analyses to evaluate formation and postdepositional processes of archaeological remains through high-resolution micro-contextual studies. As a result, the Tor Fawaz assemblages show general similarity to those of Boker Tachtit Level 4, Tor Sadaf A–B, and Wadi Aghar C–D1 that represent the late phase of the IUP in the southern Levant. Based on the detailed recognition of site-formation processes, we suggest ca. 45–36 ka as the age of IUP occupations at Tor Fawaz. More specifically, the IUP occupations at Tor Fawaz and Wadi Aghar, a nearby IUP site in the same area, may represent slightly different phases that show a lithic technological trend paralleling the IUP sequence at Tor Sadaf in southern Jordan, and possibly post-date Boker Tachtit Level 4. We also discuss the issue of partial chronological overlap between the late IUP and the Ahmarian and also argue for the geographically different trends in cultural changes from the late IUP to the Ahmarian.

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Kadowaki,

Suzuki,

Nishiaki

2023

Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans Series

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An Early Upper Palaeolithic Stone Tool Assemblage from Mughr El-Hamamah, Jordan: An Interim Report

Cited by 14 publications

References 67 publications

Gazelle Hunting Strategies in the Early Ahmarian: Close-Range Visuospatial Characteristics of Site Locations Indicate Spatially Focused Hunting Strategies on Gazella sp. During the Early Ahmarian

Gazelle Hunting Strategies in the Early Ahmarian: Close-Range Visuospatial Characteristics of Site Locations Indicate Spatially Focused Hunting Strategies on Gazella sp. During the Early Ahmarian

Lithic Technology and Chronology of Initial Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at Tor Fawaz, Southern Jordan

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