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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106304
	The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the southern Levant: New insights from the late Middle Paleolithic site of Far'ah II, Israel
	Goder-Goldberger, Mae 1; Crouvi, Onn 2; Caracuta, Valentina 3,4,5; Horwitz, Liora Kolska 6; Neumann, Frank H.7,8; Porat, Naomi 2; Scott, Louis 9; Shavit, Roi 1; Jacoby-Glass, Yael 2; Zilberman, Tami 2; Boaretto, Elisabetta 3,4
通讯作者	Goder-Goldberger, Mae
来源期刊	QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
ISSN	0277-3791
出版年	2020
卷号	237
英文摘要	Far'ah II is an open-air site in the north western Negev desert (Israel). Previous excavations in the 1970's revealed a rich, in situ Middle Paleolithic (MP) assemblage composed of flint and limestone artifacts, animal bones and charcoal. Renewed excavation at the site were undertaken in 2017, to re-date it and provide a more accurate constrain to the sites' age, as well as collect samples for paleoclimatic proxies. Our new Optically Stimulated Luminescence and C-14 ages together with the stable oxygen isotope signature of the loess sediments, constrain the age of the upper archaeological horizon to <49 ka. This age agrees with the younger limit of 60-50 ka, obtained by Electron Spin Resonance ages, measured in the 1990's. The heavy delta O-18 values in carbonates point to cooler climatic conditions than those that prevailed during the preceding short, warm episode between 58 and 49 ka. The fauna, pollen and charcoal collected during the excavation portray a savanna-like environment with a mix of Irano-Turanian and Saharo-Arabian elements and a minor Mediterranean component. The lithic assemblage exhibits large technological variability typical of the Late MP (LMP), amongst which are technological traits that are clearly present in the Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) assemblages at the nearby, and roughly contemporaneous, site of Boker Tachtit. If population replacement was the trigger to the MP-UP transition, we would have expected to see a clear break in the cultural material at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic. The semi-arid north western Negev, as an interim region between the Mediterranean and Saharo-Arabian ecozones could have facilitated interaction between populations moving north or south due to fluctuating climatic conditions and changes in population pressures, possibly leading to the emergence of new technological traditions that are observed in the later UP. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Pleistocene Prehistoric hunter-gatherers Negev desert Paleoenvironment Middle east Stable isotopes
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Israel ; France ; South Africa
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000533150700013
WOS关键词	OPEN-AIR SITE ; UPPER PLEISTOCENE ; NEGEV HIGHLANDS ; NORTHERN NEGEV ; MODERN HUMANS ; LITHIC TECHNOLOGY ; HUMAN DISPERSALS ; HOMO-SAPIENS ; AFRICA ; DESERT
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
来源机构	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/319272
作者单位	1.Ben Gurion Univ Negev, Bible Archaeol & Ancient Near East Dept, Beer Sheva, Israel; 2.Geol Survey Israel, 32 Yeshayahu Leibowitz St, Jerusalem, Israel; 3.Weizmann Inst Sci, Max Planck Weizmann Ctr Integrat Archaeol & Anthr, Rehovot, Israel; 4.Weizmann Inst Sci, D REAMS Radiocarbon Dating Lab, Rehovot, Israel; 5.Inst Evolutionary Sci Montpellier, F-34900 Montpellier, France; 6.Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Natl Nat Hist Collect, Jerusalem, Israel; 7.Univ Witwatersrand, Evolutionary Studies Inst, Johannesburg, South Africa; 8.Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Geosci, Johannesburg, South Africa; 9.Univ Free State, Dept Plant Sci, Bloemfontein, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Goder-Goldberger, Mae,Crouvi, Onn,Caracuta, Valentina,et al. The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the southern Levant: New insights from the late Middle Paleolithic site of Far'ah II, Israel[J]. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,2020,237.
APA	Goder-Goldberger, Mae.,Crouvi, Onn.,Caracuta, Valentina.,Horwitz, Liora Kolska.,Neumann, Frank H..,...&Boaretto, Elisabetta.(2020).The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the southern Levant: New insights from the late Middle Paleolithic site of Far'ah II, Israel.QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS,237.
MLA	Goder-Goldberger, Mae,et al."The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the southern Levant: New insights from the late Middle Paleolithic site of Far'ah II, Israel".QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS 237(2020).