Resumen de Upper Palaeolithic sites from Wadi Fazael, Israel
In the course of an ongoing survey in the Lower Jordan Valley, three Upper Palaeolithic open air sites were discovered. Limited testing revealed the presence of intensively occupied extensive occurrences yielding abundant lithic and faunal samples.
Although the sites are most probably all of terminal Upper Palaeolithic date, two distinct industries are represented; one, Fazael IX, is characterized by a flake-oriented lithic technology and a predominance of burins, especially those on concave truncations;
the other, represented by Fazael X-XI is a microlithic industry in which partially and completely retouched bladelets dominate the tool repertoire. These industries reinforce the current consensus that development within the Upper Palaeolithic was dendritic.
The Fazael X-XI assemblages in particular tend to confirm the autochthonous origins of the Epi-Palaeolithic Kebaran technocomplex.
