INTRODUCTION: -- The emergence of modern humans: issues and debates ; The Levant and the modern human debate / Donald O. Henry -- CASE STUDY: -- A case study from Southern Jordan: Tor Faraj ; Human behavior and the stone tools from Tor Foraj / Donald O. Henry -- Small lithic debris analysis / Teresa L. Armagan -- Into the mind of the maker: refitting study and technological reconstructions / Yu E. Demidenko, V.I. Usik -- Middle paleolithic plant exploitation: the microbotanical evidence / Arlene Miller Rosen -- Formation processes and paleosurface identification / Harold J. Hietala -- Site structure and material patterning in space on the Tor Faraj living floors / Harold J. Hietala -- SUMMARY: -- Behavioral organization at Tor Faraj / Donald O. Henry -- APPENDIX A: Alphabetical listing of attribute definitions used for the Tor Faraj small lithic debris study / Teresa L. Armagan -- APPENDIX B: Small lithic debris analysis results tables / Teresa L. Armagan -- APPENDIX C: Cross-cultural data for hearths in rockshelters / Donald O. Henry -- APPENDIX D: Analysis of sediments for zinc and phosphate ions / Thomas M. Harris
Summary
The volume traces the controversy that revolves around the bio-cultural relationships of Archaic (Neanderthal) and Modern humans at global and regional, Levantine scales. The focus of the book is on understanding the degree to which the behavioral organiz
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-312) and index
