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The Upper Paleolithic Period in the Levant
Journal of world prehistory • 5 • Published In 1991 • Pages: 105-154
By: Gilead, I. (Itzhak).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Gilead summarizes the Upper Paleolithic of the Levant, describing various traditions (two of which - the Ahmarian and Levantine Aurignacian - co-existed for 16,000 years), lithic technologies and tools, bone tools, settlement patterns, origins of the traditions, and climate. Early research in the Levant is briefly described.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Lithic industries
- General tools
- Identification
- Settlement patterns
- Historical reconstruction
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Epipaleolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Upper Paleolithic; 45,000 BP-13,000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Eygpt, Israel, Jordon, Lebanon, Palestinian Autonomous Areas, Syria, and Turkey
- NotesAdditional notes
- Isaac Gilead
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87655790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Middle East--Antiquities