Environmental Zones of the Near East

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Environmental Zones of the Near East

• Mountains
• Alluvial Plains
• Coastal Plain
• Deserts
• Mediterranean Levant

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Near Eastern Climates

• Precipitation Temperature

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Zagros Mts.
Taurus Mts.
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Hills of Galilee
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Hayonim Cave, Galilee
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The Upper Euphrates Valley
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Volcanic Highlands and Fertile Plainsof Anatolia
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The Deserts
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• The Levantine Costal Plain

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• The Jordan Valley
• Dead Sea

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• Jordan Valley
• Sea of Galilee

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Lower Paleolithic Chronology

• Ubeidiya
• Gesher Banot Yakov
• Middle-Late Acheulean Sites

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Faunas from
LP Sites
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Lower Paleolithic Subsistence
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Lower Paleolithic Lithic Technology

• Cores - Choppers
• Debitage
• Flake tools
• Bifacial tools
• Handaxes
• Cleavers
• Picks

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Biface Reduction
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Ubeidiya
What a great sight!
1970
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• Geology of Ubeidiya
• Limnic (lake) deposits
• LI LU
• Littoral-fluvial deposits
• FI FU
• Post-depositional Tectonics

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The Anticline
Li Sediments
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• FI deposits

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• Geology of Ubeidiya

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• Excavations- 1960s

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• Oldowan Artifacts

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• Gesher Banot Yakov

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• The Kombewa Technique

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• Levallois Technology

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• Levallois Flake Core

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• Middle Acheulean Sites

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• Berzine (Syria)- Middle Acheulean

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• Evron Quarry
• Israel Coastal Plain

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• Tabun Cave
• Coastal Plain, Israel
• Layers D-B Mousterian
• Layer E Mugharan
• Layer F Late Acheulean
• Layer G Tayacian

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• Tabun Cave, Layer G
• Tayacian

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• Tabun Cave -Layer F
• Late Acheulean

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• Tabun Cave, Layer E
• Mugharan Tradition

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