The Faunal Remains from Evron Quarry in Relation to Other Lower Paleolithic Hominid Sites in the Southern Levant

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eitan Tchernov ◽  
Liora Kolska Horwitz ◽  
Avraham Ronen ◽  
Adrian Lister
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Southern Levant ◽  
Jordan Valley ◽  
Faunal Composition ◽  
Lower Paleolithic ◽  
Oriental Region ◽  
Lower Palaeolithic

AbstractThe mammalian assemblage and archaeological finds from the Lower Palaeolithic hominid site of Evron Quarry, situated on the northern coastal plain of Israel, are described and discussed. In their lithic and faunal composition, the sites of Latamne (QfIII) (Latamne Formation, Orontes, Syria) and Sitt Markho (Nahr elKebir, Syria) resemble Evron and are probably contemporaneous. It is suggested here, based on their lithic and faunal composition, that these sites may be chronologically closer to the site of Ubeidiya ('Ubeidiya Formation, Jordan Valley, Israel; 1.4 myr) than to the sites of Gesher Benot Ya'akov (dated as <800,000 yr B.P.), which differs in both aspects from Evron. The mammalian faunule from Evron comprises a biogeographical mixture, a result of biotic exchanges with Africa, the Oriental region, and the Palaearctic. This exchange may have been associated with a post-'Ubeidiya hominid dispersal, either from Africa or south Asia via the Levantine "corridor."

New data on the Geology and Geochronology of the Lower Palaeolithic Site Bizat Ruhama in the Southern Levant

Paléorient ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Laukhin ◽  
A. Ronen ◽  
G.A. Pospelova ◽  
Z.V. Sharonova ◽  
Vadim Aleksandrovich Ranov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southern Levant ◽  
Lower Palaeolithic

Cultural Metallurgy—A Key Factor in the Transition from the Chalcolithic to Bronze Age in the Southern Levant

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Nissim Amzallag
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Southern Levant ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
The Bronze Age

The causes of the disappearance of Late Chalcolithic society (Ghassulian) in the early fourth millennium bc remain obscure. This study identifies the collapse as the consequence of a change in the approach to metallurgy from cosmological fundament (Late Chalcolithic) to a practical craft (EB1). This endogenous transition accounts for the cultural recession characterizing the transitional period (EB1A) and the discontinuity in ritual practices. The new practical approach in metallurgy is firstly observed in the southern margin of the Ghassulian culture, which produced copper for distribution in the Nile valley rather than the southern Levant. Nevertheless, the Ghassulian cultural markers visible in the newly emerging areas of copper working (southern coastal plain, Nile valley) denote the survival of the old cosmological traditions among metalworkers of the EB1 culture. Their religious expression unveils the extension of the Ghassulian beliefs attached to metallurgy and their metamorphosis into the esoteric fundaments of the Bronze Age religions.

The Problem of Black Scale (Chrysomphalus Ficus, Ashm.) in Palestine

1936 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 677-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Schweig ◽  
A. Grunberg
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Jordan Valley ◽  
Aonidiella Aurantii ◽  
Alternative Hosts ◽  
Scale Population ◽  
Black Scale ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Mutual Tolerance

The work which is described in this paper was undertaken owing to the conflicting results of standard fumigation practice in Palestine as it existed up to 1932, so that it became evident that the response of the Black Scale to Palestine conditions called for investigation.Owing to the difference in climate between the Northern Coastal Plain and the Jordan Valley a series of parallel investigations had to be initiated, with the interesting results which Dr. Schweig and Mr. Grunberg have set forth.There seems little doubt that the growers in the Jordan Valley will have to change from summer to winter fumigation and that in Acre Sub-District even if the double fumigation now under trial is not practicable (and there is no reason wh y it should not be) fumigation will have to be completed by the end of July—otherwise the fruit of the last fumigated groves will be infested before the gangs can reach them. With regard to biological control, this would be pf more value for keeping down the Black Scale population on alternative hosts, such as Eucalyptus groves and roadside trees. Negotiations for the importation of Comperiella bifasciata are in progress, and if this proves possible it will be given a trial in the Jordan Valley and the Coastal Plain.It is unfortunate that the pressure of other demands on the time of a small staff precluded the investigation of the behaviour of the Black Scale in Jaffa Sub-District, but general observations show that it tends to react more in the manner of the Jordan Valley race than of that of the Northern Coastal Plain.All the orange-groves between Jaffa and Haifa are heavily infested with Aonidiella aurantii, and it will be interesting to see, in view of the observations on mutual tolerance contained in this paper, whether Black Scale spreading from Jaffa will drive out the Red Scale or fail to make headway agaipst it.

An elasmobranch assemblage from the terrestrial-marine transitional Lethbridge Coal Zone (Dinosaur Park Formation: Upper Campanian), Alberta, Canada

1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 494-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil R. Beavan ◽  
Anthony P. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Brackish Water ◽  
Depositional Environments ◽  
Faunal Composition ◽  
First Occurrence ◽  
Marine Influence ◽  
Dinosaur Park Formation ◽  
First Time ◽  
Provincial Park ◽  
Upper Campanian

The change in depositional environments observed in the Cretaceous (Upper Campanian) strata in the region of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, from the proximal coastal plain deposits of the Oldman Formation to the lowland coastal plain deposits of the Dinosaur Park Formation, reveals an associated change in faunal composition. An assemblage collected from a microvertebrate site in the paralic deposits of the Lethbridge Coal Zone (uppermost Dinosaur Park Formation) reflects an increasing marine influence. Elasmobranch (sharks and rays) remains are the most abundant, both in terms of number of overall taxa and number of elements, and they are the best-preserved specimens. However, several brackish-water-tolerant osteichthyan taxa, and four reptile taxa (two marine and two terrestrial), were also recovered, although they exhibited evidence of extensive taphonomic reworking.The elasmobranch fauna collected from the Dinosaur Park locality is uncommon for vertebrate microfossil assemblages in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta and in equivalent beds in Montana. Seven of the 10 taxa collected from this site [Cretorectolobus olsoni Case, 1978; Eucrossorhinus microcuspidatus Case, 1978; Odontaspis aculeatus (Cappetta and Case, 1975); Archaeolamna kopingensis judithensis Siverson, 1992; Protoplatyrhina renae Case, 1978; Ischyrhiza mira Leidy, 1856; and Ptychotrygon blainensis Case, 1978] are recorded for the first time from the uppermost section of the Judith River Group in Alberta; Carcharias steineri (Case, 1987), represents the first occurrence within the upper Judith River Group from either Alberta or Montana.

scholarly journals A Large Copper Artefacts Assemblage of Fazael, Jordan Valley

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 246-261
Author(s):  
Danny Rosenberg ◽  
Eli Buchman ◽  
Sariel Shalev ◽  
Shay Bar
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Copper Industry ◽  
Southern Levant ◽  
Jordan Valley ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
Chalcolithic Period ◽  
First Time ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Late Chalcolithic metallurgy developed in the southern Levant simultaneously with other crafts and new social institutions, reflecting advances in social organization, cults and technology. Until recently, copper items were mostly found in the Negev and Judean Desert, while other areas, specifically the Jordan Valley, were considered poor, with limited copper finds. Recent excavations at Late Chalcolithic Fazael in the Jordan Valley yielded dozens of copper items that allow for the first time a comprehensive study of copper items from this area. The assemblage is one of the largest of any site in the Late Chalcolithic period and includes most of the known components of the Late Chalcolithic copper industry. The current paper presents the new metallurgical discoveries from the Fazael Basin and discusses their significance to our understanding of the Late Chalcolithic copper industry.

Chalcolithic groundwater mining in the southern Levant: open, vertical shafts in the Late Chalcolithic central coastal plain settlement landscape of Israel

Levant ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Edwin C. M. van den Brink ◽  
Oren Ackermann ◽  
Yaakov Anker ◽  
Yeshua Dray ◽  
Gilad Itach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Southern Levant ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
Settlement Landscape

Plectotropis yonganensis sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Bradybaenidae) from China, with revision of two Chinese camaenid species (Gastropoda: Camaenidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2929 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
WEI-CHUAN ZHOU ◽  
QIONG XIAO ◽  
DE-NIU CHEN ◽  
CHUNG-CHI HWANG
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Land Snails ◽  
Oriental Region ◽  
Anatomical Characters ◽  
Body Whorl

The terrestrial snail genus Ganesella Blanford, 1863, sensu lacto by Zilch (1959–1960), is mainly distributed in the Oriental region from Japan, through south of the Yangtze of China to South-east and South Asia. Most of these land snails are endemic species with narrow geographic distribution (Tryon 1888; Pilsbry 1894; Zilch 1959–1960, 1966; Richardson 1985, Chen & Gao 1987; Azuma 1995). The genus is characterized in having thin, smooth or weakly ridged shell, slightly descent body whorl in front, toothless aperture, expanded to reflected lips, long and narrow foot, long penis with a caecum (= penial appendix) and a flagellum. However, the anatomical characters of the type species, G. capitium Benson, 1848, are still wanting. A major part of its members have been assigned to different genus according to shell characters. The species in East-Asia, i.e., Japan, Korea and Taiwan, were assigned to the genus Satsuma (+ syn. Coniglobus Pilsbry & Hirase, 1906 and Luchuhadra Kuroda & Habe, 1949). About 100 species are still catalogued in Ganesella (Richardson 1985).

Potters in Transition

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-249
Author(s):  
Sabine Kleiman
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Southern Levant ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Relative Chronology ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
Second Millennium Bce

Abstract For many years, the Late Bronze/Iron Age transition in the southern Levant has been the subject of intense debates concerning chronological matters and cultural developments. Ceramic studies were often the focal point of the discussion, but they usually concentrated on the appearance of Aegean-style pottery in the southern Coastal Plain and the nearby Shephelah, while largely disregarding the indigenous pottery tradition. In this paper, I study the processes of continuity and change in ceramic shape morphology and decoration techniques of three important tell-sites in the Shephelah: Lachish, ʿAzẹqȧ (Tel Azekah) and Ekron. It will be shown that marked innovations took place during the transition to the Iron I. These were most likely triggered by the appearance of foreign potters who produced local Aegean-style wares and seem to have influenced the traditions of the indigenous ceramic workshops. Such insights not only allow a fine-tuning of the relative chronology of the region at the end of the second millennium BCE, but also illuminate the transmission of professional knowledge and cultural traits through the ages.

Faunal remains from recent excavations at Shishan Marsh 1 (SM1), a Late Lower Paleolithic open-air site in the Azraq Basin, Jordan

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 768-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
James T. Pokines ◽  
Adrian M. Lister ◽  
Christopher J. H. Ames ◽  
April Nowell ◽  
Carlos E. Cordova
Keyword(s):  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Panthera Leo ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Lower Paleolithic ◽  
Lithic Assemblages ◽  
Late Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Azraq Basin

AbstractExcavations from 2013 to 2015 at the site of Shishan Marsh 1 (SM1) in the Azraq Basin of eastern Jordan have yielded substantial late middle Pleistocene lithic assemblages in association with faunal remains. Faunal preservation is poor, but multiple taxa have been identified, including cf. Panthera leo, Gazella sp., Bos cf. primigenius, Camelus sp., Equus spp., cf. Stephanorhinus hemitoechus, Palaeoloxodon cf. recki, and Elephas cf. hysudricus. The overall Azraq habitat may have been most similar to a savanna ecosystem, with a mixture of open grassland/shrub habitats and more closed vegetation along the wetlands margins. These taxa were drawn to the relatively lush oasis environment, where they were a dietary resource of the hominin groups exploiting the wetlands resources.

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