The Upper Paleolithic Sites

Early Upper Paleolithic chronology in the Levant: new ABOx-SC accelerator mass spectrometry results from the Mughr el-Hamamah Site, Jordan

“…None of the hallmarks of the later Levantine Aurignacian or Late Ahmarian (ca. 30e20 ka) technocomplexes, such as carinated pieces, twisted bladelets, or bladelets with Ouchtata retouch have been observed in the MHM assemblage (Coinman, 1993(Coinman, , 2000Coinman and Henry, 1995;Goring-Morris et al, 2009;Bar-Yosef and BelferCohen, 2010;Shea, 2013). All lithic materials > ca.…”

The Ahmarian tradition of the Levantine Upper Paleolithic: the environment of the archaeology

“…Upper Paleolithic sites also are known now in the southern Arava valley (Henry, 1988), in Wadi Hasa (Clark et al, 1988), near Petra (Schyle and Uerpman, 1988), and in Gebel Qalkha (Coinman and Henry, 1995) in southern Jordan, in the Jordan Valley (Edwards et al, 1988), from the Azraq basin in northeastern Jordan (Garrard et al, 1987), and in the ElKowm Basin of the Palmyra desert in central Syria (Boeda and Muhesen, 1993).…”

“…5 One of two Early Ahmarian sites within Gebel Qalkha in southern Jordan has been partially excavated (10 m 2 ). Both sites (J431, J432) are related to rockshelters and neither is dated radiometrically (Coinman and Henry, 1995).…”

Middle Palaeolithic point technology, with a focus on the site of Tor Faraj (Jordan, MIS 3)

“…A certainly analogy with 'Umm el Tlel' points, known from the Upper Palaeolithic of the Levant, can be seen in these cases (Shea, 2013;140). The removal of the central aris from the proximal end of elongated Levallois points is also a feature of the putatively transitional assemblage from Wadi Aghar near Tor Faraj (Coinman and Henry, 1995).…”