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Neanderthals in the Levant - Behavioural Organization and the Beginnings of Human Modernity (Paperback)
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Neanderthals in the Levant - Behavioural Organization and the Beginnings of Human Modernity (Paperback)
Series: New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology
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This significant contribution to scholarship on the Middle
Paleolithic, now reissued with a new preface, 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 organization of Archaic groups
differed from Moderns. To this end, a case study is presented for a
44-70,000 year old, Middle Paleolithic occupation of a Jordanian
rockshelter. The research, centering on the spatial analysis of
artifacts, hearths and related data, reveals how the Archaic
occupants of the shelter structured their activities and placed
certain conceptual labels on different parts of the site. The
structure of Tor Faraj is compared to site structures defined for
modern foragers, in both ethnographic and archaeological contexts,
to measure any differences in behavioral organization. The
comparisons show very similar structures for Tor Faraj and its
modern cohorts, and the implications of this finding challenge
prevailing views that Archaic groups had inferior cognition and
less complex behavioral-social organization than modern foragers.
The study also calls into question the contention that such
behaviors only emerged after the appearance of the Upper
Paleolithic, dated some 10-20,000 years later than the occupation
of Tor Faraj.
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