Human paleoecology in the Levantine Corridor
By: Naama Goren-Inbar and John D. Speth, editors.
Contributors: Goren-Inbar, N.; Speth, John D.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples -- Middle East.; Paleoecology -- Pleistocene.; Paleoecology -- Middle East.; Human ecology -- Middle East.; Human evolution -- Middle East.; Middle East -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Levantine waterway, riparian archaeology, paleolimnology, and conservation / Dov F. Por; title: Quaternary lake margins of the Levant Rift Valley / Craig S. Feibel; title: Hippos, pigs, bovids, saber-toothed tigers, monkeys, and hominids : dispersals through the Levantine Corridor during late Pliocene and early Pleistocene times / Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro; title: Ecological interactions of elephantids in Pleistocene Eurasia : Palaeoloxodon and Mammuthus / Adrian M. Lister; title: Long-term continuity of a freshwater turtle (Mauremys caspica rivulata) population in the northern Jordan Valley and its paleoenvironmental implications / Gideon Hartman; title: Early hominid subsistence in the Levant : taphonomic studies of the Plio-Pleistocene 'Ubeidiya Formation (Israel) - evidence from 'Ubeidiya layer II-24 / Sabine Gaudzinski; title: Bands and other corporate hominid groups in Acheulian culture / Emanuel Marx; title: Culture and genes in the evolution of human language / Daniel Dor and Eva Jablonka; title: Climate variability in the Levant and northeast Africa during the late Quaternary based on marine and land records / Ahuva Almogi-Labin, Miryam Bar-Matthews and Avner Ayalon; title: Dental pathology, stressful events, and disease in Levantine early anatomically modern humans : evidence from Qafzeh / Anne-Marie Tillier ... [et al.]; title: Hunting pressure, subsistence intensification, and demographic change in the Levantine late Middle Paleolithic / John D. Speth; title: Wetland drainage in the Levant (Lake Hula, Amik Gölü, and el-Azraq Oasis) : impact on avian fauna / Shoshana Ashkenazi; title: "A feather for each wind that blows" : utilizing avifauna in assessing changing patterns in paleoecology and subsistence at Jordan Valley archaeological sites / Tal Simmons; title: Natufian behavior in the Hula Basin : the question of territoriality / François R. Valla.