The southern Levant has a long history of human habitation and it has been previously
suggested that climatic changes during the Late Pleistocene–Holocene stimulated changes …

Forty-four boulders from moraines in two glacial valleys of Mount Erciyes (38.53° N, 35.45°
E, 3917m), central Turkey, dated with cosmogenic chlorine-36 (36Cl), indicate four periods …

Practical and Theoretical Geoarchaeology, Second Edition, provides an invaluable and
vastly updated overview of geoarchaeology and how it can be used effectively in the study of …

Few prehistoric developments have received as much attention as the origins of agriculture
and its associated societal implications in the Near East. A great deal of this research has …

Dated oxygen and carbon isotopic profiles from a Holocene stalagmite (11.9–1.1 ka) from
the Jeita cave, Lebanon, are compared to variations in crystallographic habit, stalagmite …

Revolutions in the Desert investigates the development of pastoral nomadism in the arid
regions of the ancient Near East, challenging the prevailing notion that such societies left …

The Araba valley lies between the southern tip of the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. This
depression, blanketed with alluvial and lacustrine deposits, is cut along its entire length by …

The Amuq plain in southeast Turkey is of major importance to the development of Near
Eastern cultural sequences. Recent investigations of geoarchaeology, settlement patterns …

The Mediterranean has been subject to changing human settlement and land use patterns
for millennia, and has a history of human exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape …

Stands of relict vegetation, soil horizons, and sedimentary deposits along with
archaeological evidence suggest that during certain time spans within the past twenty …