The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archeology of the Levant and Beyond

1. Archeological Issues in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of the Levant and Its Neighboring Regions
Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Takeru Akazawa

Part I. The Levant

2. An Open-Air Site at Nesher Ramla, Israel, and New Insights into Levantine Middle Paleolithic Technology and Site Use
Yossi Zaidner, Laura Centi, Marion Prevost, Maayan Shemer, Oz Varoner

3. A Week in the Life of the Mousterian Hunter
Gonen Sharon

4. Chrono-cultural Considerations of Middle Paleolithic Occurrences at Manot Cave (Western Galilee), Israel
Ofer Marder, Omry Barzilai, Talia Abulafia, Israel Hershkovitz, Mae Goder-Goldberger

5. Middle Palaeolithic Flint Mines in Mount Carmel: An Alternative Interpretation
Avraham Ronen

6. Initial Upper Paleolithic Elements of the Keoue Cave, Lebanon
Yoshihiro Nishiaki

7. The Ahmarian in the Context of the Earlier Upper Palaeolithic in the Near East
Nigel Goring-Morris, Anna Belfer-Cohen

8. Ahmarian or Levantine Aurignacian? Wadi Kharar 16R and New Insights into the Upper Palaeolithic Lithic Technology in the Northeastern Levant
Seiji Kadowaki

Part II. The Neighboring Regions of the Levant

9. Living on the Edge: The Earliest Modern Human Settlement of the Armenian Highlands in Aghitu-3 Cave
Andreas Taller, Boris Gasparyan, Andrew W. Kandel

10. The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in the Zagros: The Appearance and Evolution of the Baradostian
Sonia Shidrang

11. Upper Palaeolithic Raw Material Economy in the Southern Zagros Mountains of Iran
Elham Ghasidian, Saman Heydari-Guran

12. Neanderthals and Modern Humans in the Indus Valley? The Middle and Late (Upper) Palaeolithic Settlement of Sindh, a Forgotten Region of the Indian Subcontinent
Paolo Biagi, Elisabetta Starnini

13. Ecological Niche and Least-Cost Path Analyses to Estimate Optimal Migration Routes of Initial Upper Palaeolithic Populations to Eurasia
Yasuhisa Kondo, Katsuhiro Sano, Takayuki Omori, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Wing-Le Chan, Seiji Kadowaki, Masaki Naganuma, Ryouta O’ishi, Takashi Oguchi, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Minoru Yoneda

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