Upper Palaeolithic Occurrences in Sinai and the transition to the Epi-palaeolithic in the Southern Levant

Paléorient ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Gilead
Keyword(s):  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Southern Levant

Intra- and Inter-Site Variability within the Levantine Upper Palaeolithic: Evidence from Jebel Humeima (J412), South-west Jordan

2000 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 29-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristopher W. Kerry
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Southern Levant ◽  
Lithic Assemblage ◽  
South West ◽  
Core Reduction ◽  
Tool Types ◽  
Site Variability

Expanded excavations at the rockshelter of Jebel Humeima (J412) in south-west Jordan provide the basis for re-evaluation of its Upper Palaeolithic lithic assemblage. Initially identified as Levantine Aurignacian, the sample is more closely aligned with the Early Ahmarian. The framework currently used for the Levantine Upper Palaeolithic, combined with spatial clustering of specific blank and tool types, is directly responsible for initial misidentification. This spatial clustering is thought to represent two distinct activity loci: early-stage core reduction and later-stage blade and tool production. This kind of technological and typological variability may also help account for some of the ambiguity within the current Upper Palaeolithic framework of the southern Levant.

scholarly journals Radiocarbon Dating in the Southern Levant

Radiocarbon ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Southern Levant

Radiocarbon dating provides the principal chronometric data for the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, Epipalaeolithic, and Chalcolithic periods in the southern Levant. It is a secondary source of dating evidence for the Early Bronze age, when archaeological correlations with Syria and especially Egypt become available. For the Middle and Late Bronze age, Iron age, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, 14C dating has only limited value because the technique is less precise than the normally available archaeologic and historic materials.

Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Later Finds from Oxlease Farm, Romsey, Hampshire: Summary Report

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Chris Ellis ◽  
Jacky Sommerville
Keyword(s):  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Summary Report ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Field Boundary ◽  
Lithic Assemblage ◽  
Late Roman

In March 2016, archaeological excavation was undertaken at four areas of land at Oxlease Farm, Cupernham Lane, Romsey, Hampshire. The fieldwork recovered a lithic assemblage from all four excavation areas, although the majority was recorded from a single flint-bearing deposit in Area 1. The assemblage included several elements that may belong to the Terminal Upper Palaeolithic Long Blade industry, as well as three flints of Mesolithic date. A small number of undated features were also uncovered, including pits and possible postholes, which may have been of a prehistoric date. A small and residual assemblage of Late Roman (3rd – 4th century AD) pottery was also recovered from probable medieval/post-medieval field boundary ditches or plough furrows.

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