Mammalian body size diminution across the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene transition in
the southern Levant has been much researched, with special focus on gazelle in Levantine …

Current evidence suggests domestications of the dog were incipient developments in many
areas of the world. In southwest Asia this process took place in the Late Epipalaeolithic …

The production of lime plaster is especially important as a technological development in
human prehistory as it requires advanced knowledge and skills to transform rocks to a …

This paper presents a summary of work undertaken by the authors and their teams on a
series of Qe'an (plural of Qa'), in the Badia of eastern Jordan. These basins are foci for …

Networking during the early stages of the Levantine Neolithic appears to have been
encouraged by increasing demands for exotics, ie non-local commodities. The actual …

This article proposes that so-called burin sites represent the herding element of what is here
defined as the Black Desert Neolithic cultural complex, that being the material manifestation …

Utilising multiple lines of evidence for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction improves our
understanding of the past landscapes in which human populations interacted with other …

In many parts of the Middle East, both in the past and present, sustainable occupation is
dependent on highly variable water resources within sensitive local ecosystems. A recent …

Wild sheep (Ovis orientalis) bones recovered from the Natufian site of Shubayqa 1
demonstrate a wider distribution of mouflon in the Late Pleistocene of the Southern Levant …

In the north-east Jordan steppe, gazelle were of considerable economic importance to
human groups during the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic. An influential model argues that …