Middle Pleistocene Subsistence in the Azraq Oasis, Jordan: Protein Residue and Other Proxies
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)
Excavations at Shishan Marsh, a former desert oasis in Azraq, northeast Jordan, reveal a unique ecosystem and provide direct family-specific protein residue evidence of hominin adaptations in an increasingly arid environment approximately 250,000 years ago. In this session, we detail the lithic, faunal, paleo-environmental and residue data that suggest that Middle Pleistocene hominins were able to subsist in extreme arid environments through a reliance on surprisingly human-like adaptations.
Other Keywords
Jordan •
Middle Pleistocene •
Geoarchaeology •
Paleolithic •
Azraq •
Fauna •
Procurement •
Lithic Technology •
Paleoenvironment •
Lithics
Geographic Keywords
Asia (Continent) •
Republic of Turkey (Country) •
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Country) •
Republic of Iraq (Country) •
Islamic Republic of Iran (Country) •
State of Israel (Country) •
Lebanese Republic (Country) •
Syrian Arab Republic (Country) •
West Bank (Country) •
Republic of Cyprus (Country)
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The environmental context of the Middle Pleistocene occupation at the Shishan Marsh, Azraq, Jordan (2017)