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

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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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