{"product_id":"hayonim-cave-liliane-meignen-9789464261851","title":"Hayonim Cave: From the Early to the Middle Palaeolithic in the Levant (Israel)","description":"The research presented in this book results from an international interdisciplinary research program in Hayonim cave (Israel) from 1992 to 2000, directed by Prof O. Bar-Yosef (Harvard University) and L. Meignen (CNRS, France), and focusing on a long archaeological sequence dated to circa 300-140,000 years ago. The intensive fieldwork and research following it allowed us to document an essential period of human history in the Levant: the end of the Lower Palaeolithic and Early Middle Palaeolithic, during which recent discoveries showed that the early H. sapiens, expanding out of Africa, reached SW Asia around 180-190,000 years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings together the impressive findings of nine years of excavations and analysis by an interdisciplinary team of well-known scholars from US universities (Harvard, Boston, University of Arizona), Weizmann Institute (Israel) as well as from the French CNRS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeveral complementary approaches are implemented to understand early human economic, cultural and behavioral changes observed at this crucial period. It is based on detailed studies of lithic artifact technology, the remains of systematic fire use and cave occupation by early humans, and foraging strategies that include the early development of human adaptations for hunting large prey. In the context of the highly debated cultural break observed at the end of the Lower Palaeolithic, we propose new interpretations based on these innovative results.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume will provide a cornerstone for the history of humankind in a critical geographic region, at the crossroads between Africa and Eurasia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Liliane Meignen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9464261854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789464261851\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sidestone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Liliane Meignen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46867189235967,"sku":"9789464261851","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e8b85b10-87e1-4263-88ba-d785ec31cd49.jpg?v=1747454127","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hayonim-cave-liliane-meignen-9789464261851","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}