Adam Allentuck
Biographic Data
| ID | 181456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Allentuck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Allentuck |
| SIGNATURE | ALLENTUCK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The risky business of keeping pigs during periods of climatic fluctuation
Technological Change and Economy in the Epipalaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherer communities in the Southern Levant exhibit numerous complex trends that suggest that the transition to the Neolithic was patchy and protracted. This paper explores the changing nature of occupation at the Epipalaeolithic site Kharaneh IV, Jordan, through an in-depth analysis of the lithic and faunal assemblages. Focusing on the analysis of a single deep sounding (unit AS42), we address how Kharaneh IV occupations l…
Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant
An Acquired Taste
The influence of Egyptian unification and expansion on the southern Levant at the end fourth millennium bc has been the source of a protracted debate. In this article, a novel approach to the study of Egyptian–Levantine relations considers how food preferences, mediated by knowledge transmission and local cultural logic, provide an effective interpretive scheme for understanding the nature of relations between neighbouring societies. To this end,…
Temporalities of human-livestock relationships in the late prehistory of the southern Levant
The secondary products revolution is re-appraised here as a critical process in human history that created durable and enduring relationships between people and their livestock. The secondary products revolution is conventionally described in terms of agricultural intensification and a step towards urban development. This process marks a shift from a strategy in which most animals are culled when they reach an optimal weight, which for ruminants …
Raw Material Availability and Technological Choice
This paper explores the incongruous relationship between bone raw material availability and technological choice at the Early Bronze Age site of Horvat 'Illin Tahtit (HIT) in central Israel. At HIT, the worked bone assemblage is mostly comprised of minimally modified sheep and goat metapodia whose function(s) are enigmatic. Most specimens have longitudinally oriented scraping abrasions on at least one face, and of these, some have bilaterally sym…
Early Bronze I Occupation at al-Basatîn, in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan
Excavations at al-Basatîn in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan, have recovered evidence for an EB I occupation at the site, in addition to strata dating to the Late Neolithic and Classical periods. Artifacts and a series of radiocarbon assays indicate this occupation dates to the early EB I. Analyses of the pottery, stone tools, and faunal remains suggest the site was a small, perhaps somewhat isolated, farmstead that was engaged in a variety of domes…
Late Neolithic Settlement in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan
Research in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan, has focused on the discovery and excavation of Late Neolithic sites in an attempt to understand its regional settlement system in the sixth millennium cal. BC. Previous evidence suggested that small hamlets or farmsteads may have characterized this settlement system, as represented at Tabaqat al-Bûma. Recent excavations at a site downstream, al-Basatîn, have revealed evidence for a settlement that was par…
Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant
Temporalities of human-livestock relationships in the late prehistory of the southern Levant
The secondary products revolution is re-appraised here as a critical process in human history that created durable and enduring relationships between people and their livestock. The secondary products revolution is conventionally described in terms of agricultural intensification and a step towards urban development. This process marks a shift from a strategy in which most animals are culled when they reach an optimal weight, which for ruminants …
Late Neolithic Settlement in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan
Research in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan, has focused on the discovery and excavation of Late Neolithic sites in an attempt to understand its regional settlement system in the sixth millennium cal. BC. Previous evidence suggested that small hamlets or farmsteads may have characterized this settlement system, as represented at Tabaqat al-Bûma. Recent excavations at a site downstream, al-Basatîn, have revealed evidence for a settlement that was par…
Raw Material Availability and Technological Choice
This paper explores the incongruous relationship between bone raw material availability and technological choice at the Early Bronze Age site of Horvat 'Illin Tahtit (HIT) in central Israel. At HIT, the worked bone assemblage is mostly comprised of minimally modified sheep and goat metapodia whose function(s) are enigmatic. Most specimens have longitudinally oriented scraping abrasions on at least one face, and of these, some have bilaterally sym…
Technological Change and Economy in the Epipalaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherer communities in the Southern Levant exhibit numerous complex trends that suggest that the transition to the Neolithic was patchy and protracted. This paper explores the changing nature of occupation at the Epipalaeolithic site Kharaneh IV, Jordan, through an in-depth analysis of the lithic and faunal assemblages. Focusing on the analysis of a single deep sounding (unit AS42), we address how Kharaneh IV occupations l…
The risky business of keeping pigs during periods of climatic fluctuation
Late Neolithic Settlement in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan
Research in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan, has focused on the discovery and excavation of Late Neolithic sites in an attempt to understand its regional settlement system in the sixth millennium cal. BC. Previous evidence suggested that small hamlets or farmsteads may have characterized this settlement system, as represented at Tabaqat al-Bûma. Recent excavations at a site downstream, al-Basatîn, have revealed evidence for a settlement that was par…
Early Bronze I Occupation at al-Basatîn, in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan
Excavations at al-Basatîn in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan, have recovered evidence for an EB I occupation at the site, in addition to strata dating to the Late Neolithic and Classical periods. Artifacts and a series of radiocarbon assays indicate this occupation dates to the early EB I. Analyses of the pottery, stone tools, and faunal remains suggest the site was a small, perhaps somewhat isolated, farmstead that was engaged in a variety of domes…
Raw Material Availability and Technological Choice
This paper explores the incongruous relationship between bone raw material availability and technological choice at the Early Bronze Age site of Horvat 'Illin Tahtit (HIT) in central Israel. At HIT, the worked bone assemblage is mostly comprised of minimally modified sheep and goat metapodia whose function(s) are enigmatic. Most specimens have longitudinally oriented scraping abrasions on at least one face, and of these, some have bilaterally sym…
Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant
An Acquired Taste
The influence of Egyptian unification and expansion on the southern Levant at the end fourth millennium bc has been the source of a protracted debate. In this article, a novel approach to the study of Egyptian–Levantine relations considers how food preferences, mediated by knowledge transmission and local cultural logic, provide an effective interpretive scheme for understanding the nature of relations between neighbouring societies. To this end,…
Temporalities of human-livestock relationships in the late prehistory of the southern Levant
The secondary products revolution is re-appraised here as a critical process in human history that created durable and enduring relationships between people and their livestock. The secondary products revolution is conventionally described in terms of agricultural intensification and a step towards urban development. This process marks a shift from a strategy in which most animals are culled when they reach an optimal weight, which for ruminants …
Technological Change and Economy in the Epipalaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherer communities in the Southern Levant exhibit numerous complex trends that suggest that the transition to the Neolithic was patchy and protracted. This paper explores the changing nature of occupation at the Epipalaeolithic site Kharaneh IV, Jordan, through an in-depth analysis of the lithic and faunal assemblages. Focusing on the analysis of a single deep sounding (unit AS42), we address how Kharaneh IV occupations l…
The risky business of keeping pigs during periods of climatic fluctuation
Archaeology (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Bronze Age (5 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (5 works) · History (4 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (4 works) · Southern Levant (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works)