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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Gilead, I. (Itzhak)
Title:
The Upper Paleolithic Period in the Levant
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Journal of world prehistory -- Vol. 5
Published By: Original publisher
Journal of world prehistory -- Vol. 5
New York: Plenum Publishing Corp.. 1991. 105-154 p. ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Isaac Gilead
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2009. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Epipaleolithic (M080)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Lithic industries (324);
General tools (412);
Identification (101);
Settlement patterns (361);
Historical reconstruction (174);
Abstract: Brief 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.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
4
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
m080-004
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
no date
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Archaeologist-4
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Sarah Berry; 2007
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
Upper Paleolithic; 45,000 BP-13,000 BP
Coverage Place: Location 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
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Middle East--Antiquities
