Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution: Insights from Southern Jordan

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Introduction and Overview: Evolutionary Ecology and Archaeology....Pages 1-21
Late Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of the Area in the Vicinity of Ras en Naqb....Pages 23-31
Cultural-Historic Framework....Pages 33-41
The Lower Paleolithic Site of Wadi Qalkha....Pages 43-48
The Middle Paleolithic Sites....Pages 49-84
Lithic Microwear Analysis of Tor Faraj Rockshelter....Pages 85-105
Late Levantine Mousterian Patterns of Adaptation and Cognition....Pages 107-132
The Upper Paleolithic Sites....Pages 133-214
The Qalkhan Occupations....Pages 215-242
The Hamran Sites....Pages 243-293
The Madamaghan Sites....Pages 295-317
The Natufian Sites and the Emergence of Complex Foraging....Pages 319-335
Cultural Evolution and Interaction during the Epipaleolithic....Pages 337-343
An Early Neolithic Hunting Camp: Jebel Queisa....Pages 345-352
The Timnian and Pastoral Nomadism in the Chalcolithic....Pages 353-374
Pollen Analysis: Environmental and Climatic Implications....Pages 375-384
Shells from the Wadi Hisma Sites....Pages 385-390
Cementum Increment Analyses of Teeth From Wadi Judayid (J2) And Tor Hamar (J431): Estimations of Site Seasonality....Pages 391-398
Preliminary Analysis of Phytoliths from Prehistoric Sites in Southern Jordan....Pages 399-403
The Tor Hamar Fauna....Pages 405-416
Adaptive Behaviors, Evolution, and Ethnicity....Pages 417-437
Back Matter....Pages 439-466