Middle Palaeolithic Open-Air Sites

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65 - Middle Palaeolithic Open-Air Sites

from Part VI: - Humans in the Levant

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017

Erella Hovers

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Yehouda Enzel and

Ofer Bar-Yosef

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Yehouda Enzel: Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ofer Bar-Yosef: Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts

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The prehistoric research in the Levant focuses now on behavioural aspects, chronology and stratigraphic s frameworks. It raised new interest in the understanding and reconstruction of strategies of land use by the various hominin populations during 250-50 ka, including the distribution and roles of open-air sites (OAS). OAS are epistemologically challenging because they are rarely bounded by physical features and are impacted by geomorphic processes. Research has typically focused on a dichotomy between open-air and cave sites as task-oriented vs. habitation sites with general activities, respectively. Yet recent work indicates that such sites document variable patterns of cultural remains in OAS, consistent with evidence from ethnographic hunter-gatherers studies that the bulk of various activities take place out in the open. This paper reviews the research on Levantine Middle Palaeolithic OAS, which relies on multiple lines of archaeological and geoscience evidence and its importance for understanding fundamental behavioural questions about Middle Palaeolithic hominin life.

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Information: Quaternary of the Levant
Environments, Climate Change, and Humans
, pp. 593 - 600

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