The Middle Paleolithic of the East Mediterranean Levant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7324941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John J Shea (0000-0003-2146-2477) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 313-394 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of World Prehistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0892-7537 • E-ISSN: 1573-7802 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1023/b:jowo.0000020194.01496.fe |
| OpenAlex | W2109014067 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 117 |
| References cited | 204 |
Archaeology · Biological evolution · Biology · Bronze Age · Cave · Context (archaeology · Geography · Hominidae · Middle Paleolithic · Mousterian · Neanderthal · Period (music · Pleistocene · Southern Levant · Upper Paleolithic · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Geology · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Between Observations and Models
Middle Paleolithic Prey Choice Inferred from a Natural Pitfall Trap
West Asia
When Is a Point a Projectile? Morphology, Impact Fractures, Scientific Rigor, and the Limits of Inference
West and Central Asia
The Lower and Middle Paleolithic of the Southern Levant
Transitions or turnovers? Climatically-forced extinctions of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in the east Mediterranean Levant
Neandertal Demise
New chronology for Ksâr ‘Akil (Lebanon) supports Levantine route of modern human dispersal into Europe
Research review of Hummalian industry
Late Pleistocene foot infection in Dama mesopotamica from Tabun B (Mount Carmel, Israel)
Palaeolithic Human Subsistence in Mount Carmel (Israel). A Taphonomic Assessment of Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic Faunal Remains from Tabun, Skhul and el‐Wad
The Middle Paleolithic of the Levant
Human evolution and culture change in the Indian subcontinent
Chrono-cultural Considerations of Middle Paleolithic Occurrences at Manot Cave (Western Galilee), Israel
An Open-Air Site at Nesher Ramla, Israel, and New Insights into Levantine Middle Paleolithic Technology and Site Use
A Week in the Life of the Mousterian Hunter
Issues of Chronological and Geographical Distributions of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Cultural Variability in the Levant and Implications for the Learning Behavior of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens
The Acheulo-Yabrudian – Early Middle Paleolithic Sequence of Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel
Stability in the Intermittence
New Opportunities for Previously Excavated Sites
The Impact of Projectile Weaponry on Late Pleistocene Hominin Evolution
Hunting and Hunting Weapons of the Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe
Preliminary experimental insights into differential heat impact among lithic artifacts
Middle Palaeolithic find spots with Nubian cores from the Southern Negev and the Arava, Israel
The Middle – Upper Palaeolithic Transition at Yabroud II (Syria). A Re-evaluation of the Lithic Material from the Rust Excavation
The Levallois Flaking System in Nesher Ramla Upper Sequence
More than blades. Early Middle Palaeolithic of the Levant
Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa
Locals and Foreigners in the Levant during the Pleistocene
The potential impacts of climate factors and malaria on the Middle Palaeolithic population patterns of ancient humans
Late Quaternary sea-level changes and early human societies in the central and eastern Mediterranean Basin
Palynological investigations at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet, Israel
Sir Arthur Keith's Legacy
Eberhauerschmuck und Schweinekiefer-Beigaben in den Neolithischen und Kupferzeitlichen Bestattungssitten des Karpatenbeckens
Vestiges of the Sedimentary Archive of Late Paleolithic Inhumations from San Teodoro Cave
Neanderthals and us
High altitude Middle Palaeolithic open-air locales of the Miankouh, Thrust Zagros Mountains, Iran
Microwear Analysis of The Lithic Assemblages associated with Middle Paleolithic Homo sapiens in Qafzeh Cave Levels XV-XXIV
Levallois points and triangular flakes during the Middle Palaeolithic in northwestern Europe
Beach deposits containing Middle Paleolithic archaeological remains from northern Israel
The Levantine Early Middle Palaeolithic in retrospect – Reassessing the contribution of Abou-Sif to the understanding of Palaeolithic record
The Upper Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic of Sefunim Cave, Israel
Bagratashen 1, a stratified open-air Middle Paleolithic site in the Debed river valley of northeastern Armenia
Who Were The Skhul/Qafzeh People? An Archaeological Perspective on Eurasia's Oldest Modern Humans
Neanderthals versus Modern Humans
Manganese coating of the Tabun faunal assemblage
Making a point
Applied Force as a Determining Factor in Lithic Use-Wear Accrual
The use of the lateral tranchet blow technique at Nesher Ramla (Israel)
Frequency and production technology of bladelets in Late Middle Paleolithic, Initial Upper Paleolithic, and Early Upper Paleolithic (Ahmarian) assemblages in Jebel Qalkha, Southern Jordan
Late Pleistocene hominin settlement patterns and population dynamics in the Zagros Mountains
Dissecting palimpsests in a Late Lower and Middle Paleolithic flint acquisition site on the Madaba Plateau, Jordan
Nubian technology in northern Arabia
Evidence of Levallois strategies on cores at Guanyindong cave, Southwest China during the Late Middle Pleistocene
Middle Palaeolithic point technology, with a focus on the site of Tor Faraj (Jordan, MIS 3)
A new look at the Middle Paleolithic lithic industry of the Teshik-Tash Cave, Uzbekistan, West Central Asia
Lithic assemblage from the Jingshuiwan Paleolithic site of the early Late Pleistocene in the Three Gorges, China
The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition and the diversification of Levallois technology in the Southern Levant
Flint workshop affiliation
Rediscovering Geula Cave
Rethinking Emireh Cave
The Middle Palaeolithic of Cyrenaica
A late Middle Stone Age artifact assemblage from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal)
The toolkit in the core
The Bab al Mandab vs the Nile-Levant
Origin of an obsidian scraper at Yabroud Rockshelter II (Syria)
Late Pleistocene dispersal corridors across the Iranian Plateau
Stone tool assemblages and models for the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa
Middle to Late Pleistocene human habitation in the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia
Contextual areas” of early Homo sapiens and their significance for human dispersal from Africa into Eurasia between 200 ka and 70 ka
The effect of terrain on Neanderthal ecology in the Levant
Formation processes and combustion features at the lower layers of the Middle Palaeolithic open-air site of Nesher Ramla, Israel
Nubian Levallois Technology During MIS 5
Successes and failures of human dispersals from North Africa
Skhul lithic technology and the dispersal of Homo sapiens into Southwest Asia
Mobility patterns and core technologies in the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant
The process, biotic impact, and global implications of the human colonization of Sahul about 47,000 years ago
The origins of lithic projectile point technology
Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene
Inland human settlement in southern Arabia 55,000 years ago. New evidence from the Wadi Surdud Middle Paleolithic site complex, western Yemen
Diffusion with modifications”
Hunting Weapons of Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans in South Africa
The Prehistoric Development of Clothing
The Emergence of Ornaments and Art
Selection and Heating of Colouring Materials in the Mousterian Level of Es‐skhul ( C . 100 000 Years Bp, Mount Carmel, Israel)
Archaic hominin introgression into modern human genomes
The endostructural pattern of a middle pleistocene human femoral diaphysis from the Karain E site (Southern Anatolia, Turkey)
A new discovery of Neanderthal settlements in Turkey
Climatic variability, plasticity, and dispersal
The dental remains from the Early Upper Paleolithic of Manot Cave, Israel
Standing at the gates of Europe
On Variability and Complexity
The transition from the Lower to the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe and the incorporation of difference
Sink the Mousterian? Named stone tool industries (Nasties) as obstacles to investigating hominin evolutionary relationships in the Later Middle Paleolithic Levant
Production and Structural Tendency of Levallois Points in the Late Middle Palaeolithic of the Near East Steppe Zones and Arabia
Throwing in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic
Shanidar 3 Neandertal rib puncture wound and paleolithic weaponry
Isotopic evidence for Last Glacial climatic impacts on Neanderthal gazelle hunting territories at Amud Cave, Israel
Three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of the first metacarpal distal articular surface in humans, great apes and fossil hominins
Lake Levels and Sequence Stratigraphy of Lake Lisan, the Late Pleistocene Precursor of the Dead Sea
The Climate and Landscape of the Middle Part of the Weichselian Glaciation in Europe
Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution
The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Carnivores
Mass-spectrometric U-series dates for Israeli Neanderthal/early modern hominid sites
Neandertal extinction and the millennial scale climatic variability of OIS 3
Factors Influencing the Use of Stone Projectile Tips
The Tabun Cave and Paleolithic Man in the Levant
Stone tool function at the paleolithic sites of Starosele and Buran Kaya III, Crimea
Hominids and hybrids
An early modern human from the Peştera cu Oase, Romania
Whither the Neanderthals?
Bitumen as a hafting material on Middle Palaeolithic artefacts
Paleolithic Population Growth Pulses Evidenced by Small Animal Exploitation
Ornaments of the earliest Upper Paleolithic
Evidence for a genetic discontinuity between Neandertals and 24,000-year-old anatomically modern Europeans
Molecular evolution of Foxp2, a gene involved in speech and language
The early Upper Paleolithic human skeleton from the Abrigo do Lagar Velho (Portugal) and modern human emergence in Iberia
Thermoluminescence dates for the Neanderthal burial site at Kebara in Israel
Extremely Large Variations of Atmospheric 14 C Concentration During the Last Glacial Period
ESR dates for the hominid burial site of Es Skhul in Israel
The ‘flickering switch’ of late Pleistocene climate change
Early Homo sapiens Remains from the Omo River Region of South-west Ethiopia
In search of the Neanderthals
Prehistory and Paleoenvironments in the Central Negev Israel
Prehistory of Australia, by lohn Mulvaney and lohan Kamminga, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1999
Site Formation Processes in Kebara and Hayonim Caves and Their Significance in Levantine Prehistoric Caves
The Faunal Sequence of the Southwest Asian Middle Paleolithic in Relation to Hominid Dispersal Events
Why Anatomically Modern People Did Not Disperse from Africa 100,000 Years Ago
The Chronology of the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant
Neandertal and Early Modern Human Mobility Patterns
Morphological Variation in Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens in the Levant
Late Levantine Mousterian Patterns of Adaptation and Cognition
The Middle Paleolithic Sites
Middle Paleolithic Spear Point Technology
The Mousterian Legacy
Pointes ou outils triangulaires ? Données fonctionnelles dans le Moustérien levantin [suivi des] Commentaires de J. Shea, A. Marks, J-M Geneste et de la réponse des auteurs
Découverte d'un objet en ocre avec traces d'utilisation dans le Moustérien de Qafzeh (Israël)
Tool Use in The Levantine Mousterian of Kebara Cave, Mount Carmel
The Last Neolithic Flint Industry
Cold adaptation, heterochrony, and neandertals
Zooarcheological evidence for the faunal exploitation behavior of Neandertals and early modern humans
Human evolution and human history
Neandertals, competition, and the origin of modern human behavior in the Levant
The invisible frontier. A multiple species model for the origin of behavioral modernity
Paleolithic archeology in Turkey
Postcranial remains and the origin of modern humans
The Archaeology of the Wadi al-Hasa, West-Central Jordan, Volume 1
Out of Africa’ from an Egyptian point of view
Neanderthal Acculturation in Western Europe? A Critical Review of the Evidence and Its Interpretation
Getting to the point
Electron spin resonance (ESR) and thermal ionization mass spectrometric (Tims) 230 Th/ 234 U dating of teeth in Middle Paleolithic layers at Amud Cave, Israel
Geoarchaeology and new research at Jerf al-Ajla Cave, Syria
ESR dating of the Neanderthal site, Kebara Cave, Israel
Phytoliths in the Middle Palaeolithic Deposits of Kebara Cave, Mt Carmel, Israel
Chronology and palaeoenvironment of levantine prehistoric sites as seen from sediment studies
The Dating of the Upper Paleolithic Layers in Kebara Cave, Mt Carmel
Thermoluminescence Date for the Mousterian Burial Site of Es-Skhul, Mt. Carmel
Diaphyseal Cross-sectional Geometry of Near Eastern Middle Palaeolithic Humans
Diaphyseal Cross-sectional Geometry of Near Eastern Middle Palaeolithic Humans
Comparisons and the Case for Interaction among Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans in the Levant
Quneitra
The People of Mount Carmel
Excavations at the Cave of Shukbah, Palestine, 1928
Out of Africa and into the Levant
A Preliminary Lithic Analysis of the Mousterian Site of ’Ain Difla (WHS Site 634) in the Wadi Ali, West-Central Jordan
The Use of a Multivariate Graphic Display Technique as an Exploratory Tool in the Analysis of Inter-assemblage Lithic Variability
Age of the Middle Palaeolithic Site of Rosh Ein Mor, Central Negev, Israel
Artifact abrasion, fluvial processes, and ?living floors? from the Early Paleolithic site of ?Ubeidiya (Jordan Valley, Israel)
The Neanderthal Legacy
Platform Variability and Flake Morphology
Far'ah II
Identification de chaînes opératoires lithiques du Paléolithique ancien et moyen
TL Dates for the Neanderthal Site of the Amud Cave, Israel
A Reappraisal of the Clacton Spearpoint
The Exploitation of Plant Resources by Neanderthals in Amud Cave (Israel)
Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia
Spear Points from the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant
The Excavations in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel [and Comments and Replies]
Absence of regional affinities of Neandertal DNA with living humans does not reject multiregional evolution
Makers of the early Aurignacian of Europe
Does Homo neanderthalensis play a role in modern human ancestry? The mandibular evidence
Diet and the evolution of modern human form in the Middle East
Modern human origins
The Role of Early Humans in the Accumulation of European Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Bone Assemblages
New Discovery of a Neanderthal Child Burial from the Dederiyeh Cave in Syria
Discrete trait and dental morphometric affinities of the Tabun 2 mandible
Non-occlusal dental microwear variability in a sample of Middle and Late Pleistocene human populations from Europe and the Near East
The Amud 7 skeleton—still a burial. Response to Gargett
Radiocarbon dating the appearance of modern humans and timing of cultural innovations in Europe
Tabun revisited
Neandertal and Early Modern Human Behavioral Variability A Regional‐Scale Approach to Lithic Evidence for Hunting in the Levantine Mousterian
Preliminary Note on the Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Ksâr 'Akil, Republic of Lebanon
A New Synthesis of Middle Paleolithic Variability
A Preliminary Analysis of Functional Variability in the Mousterian of Levallois Facies
North Africa and Mount Carmel
Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective
The Upper Paleolithic period in the Levant
The lower paleolithic of the Near East
Guns, Germs, and Steel
| Unique citing works | 117 |
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| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 117 |