Manot Cave: In Search of Modern Humans
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)
Manot cave in Israel produced a 55,000 year old anatomically modern human skull (Manot 1) and dense archaeological layers dated to the Early Upper Paleolithic period. Research on the human and the archaeological remains represent a major advancement in the understanding of the origin of our species and modern behavior in Western Asia. The aim of the proposed symposium "In search for modern humans at Manot Cave" is hence to present the public with the most updated interdisciplinary studies on Manot Cave to provide insights to the culture and environments of Early Upper Paleolithic modern humans in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Specialists working in excavation and analysis of the materials from the cave illustrate the results of their most recent work.
Other Keywords
Manot Cave •
Aurignacian •
Upper Paleolithic •
Levant •
Upper Palaeolithic •
Lithics •
Morphology •
Dental Morphology •
Human Evolution •
Dental Attrition
Geographic Keywords
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) •
Arab Republic of Egypt (Country)
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- Documents (14)
- The Aurignacian lithic industry from Area E (2017)
- The Dan David Expedition to Manot Cave: 2010-2016 (2017)
- Early Upper Palaeolithic Shell beads and shellfish from Manot Cave, Israel (2017)
- The Early Upper Paleolithic Radiocarbon Chronology and its synchronization in the Levant (2017)
- The Hyena ecology during the Late Pleistocene of the Levant: Manot Cave (Israel), a case study (2017)
- The ice-age landscape around Manot Cave (Israel) during the Upper and Middle Palaeolithic: new insights from the anthracological record and carbon isotopes analyses (2017)
- The lithic industries from Area C: typo-technological characteristics (2017)
- Manot 1 brain characteristics (2017)
- Manot 1 calvaria and Aduma skull: are they the same? (2017)
- The Middle Paleolithic artifacts from Manot Cave (Western Galilee), Israel (2017)
- Site Formation Processes at Manot Cave, Israel (2017)
- The Stratigraphy of Area E, Manot Cave (2017)
- Toward complexity in the osseous raw material work at the beginning of the Early Upper Palaeolithic in Eurasia: the Manot Cave (Israel) osseous tools in the Aurignacian emergence and diffusion context (2017)
- The Upper Paleolithic inhabitants of Manot Cave: the dental perspective (2017)