Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Country) (Geographic Keyword)

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Zooarchaeology and Spatial Analysis at Tepe Farukhabad: New Life for Legacy Data (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Polly Burnette-Egan.

This poster presentation presents a reanalysis of legacy faunal material, collected by Henry Wright and the zooarchaeological analysis conducted by Richard Redding, during the 1968 excavation on the Deh Luran Plains in southeastern Iran at the 4th-millennium site Tepe Farukhabad. It behooves all researchers to give more attention to the existing data sets already collected and available for research. In that vein, this study re-evaluates the faunal data sets at Tepe Farkuhabad and looks for...


Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy of Unit III in the Middle Paleolithic Site of Nesher Ramla (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Crater Gershtein. Reuven Yeshurun. Yossi Zaidner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Levantine Middle Paleolithic period plays a crucial role in human origins research, encompassing vast cognitive and technological developments. Faunal remains are an important source of knowledge regarding hunting patterns, reflecting both human behavior and subsistence strategies. This paper addresses questions of hunting, transport, butchery patterns and...