Levantine-Mousterian technological Variability: a perspective from the Negev
- Autores: Frederick Munday
- Localización: Paléorient, ISSN 0153-9345, Vol. 5, Nº. 1, 1979, págs. 87-104
- Idioma: francés
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Resumen
Recent investigations in the Avdat/Aqev area of the Central Negev revealed a wealth of Levantine Mousterian sites that seem to have been occupied during an early Wurm stadial. Mousterian occupation of the area probably terminated by 43,000 B.C. because this is the date for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition site of Boker Tachtit. Observations on the technological characteristics of the lithic debris indicate patterning that is useful for clarifying technological trends in the Levantine Mousterian in generai. Temporal shifts in flake shape and core preparation seem to be related and change in both is related to change in occupation intensity at Nahal Aqev, a Mousterian "base-camp". A model is proposed to account for technological change in the Levantine Mousterian in which temporal change in flake shape and core preparation is related to demographie and subsistance shifts that accompanied climatic and environmental shifts during the early Wurm. This model is significant because it proposes an early date for the advent of the Levantine Mousterian, that the earliest Mousterian may have been approximately contemporary with the Yabrudian and Amudian techno-complexes, and that the Mousterian sequence at Tabun may be incomplete.
