Investigations at Tor al-Tareeq: An Epipaleolithic Site in the Wadi el-Hasa, Jordan

Neeley, Michael P.; Peterson, Jane; Clark, Geoffrey A.; Fish, Suzanne K.; Glass, Margaret

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“…It lies atop a 10 to 20 meter-high Precambrian and Cambrian limestone bedrock spur that overlooks the basin of Pleistocene wetlands (Winer, 2010), which Clark (1994, 2001) have interpreted as a lake context. The site rests on eroded paludal marls and it is situated on a 16° northwest-southeast gradient (Vita-Finzi, 1966;Neeley et al, 2000). Geological, climatic, and botanical settings of Tor at-Tareeq and the Wadi al-Hasa during the Epipaleolithic period have been discussed in detail elsewhere (Schuldenrein and Clark, 1994;Neeley et al, 1997Neeley et al, , 1998Winer, 2010;Olszewski and al-Nahar, this volume;Ramsey and Rosen, this volume).…”

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“…(Fig. 1) (MacDonald et al, 1983;Neeley et al, 1997Neeley et al, , 2000. The site covers a surface area of about 812 m 2 , although actual site size is ca.…”

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“…Burton MacDonald first located Tor at-Tareeq in 1982, during a survey of the south bank of Wadi al-Hasa (MacDonald et al, 1983). The site was first excavated by Geoffrey Clark in 1984and 1992(Clark et al, 1987, 1988, 1992Neeley et al, 1997Neeley et al, , 1998Neeley et al, , 2000. In 1984 the team opened a 1x44 m trench that crosscut the site on its north-south axis.…”

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“…Archaeological investigations of the Early Epipaleolithic deposits at the site of Tor at-Tareeq have revealed two occupation horizons, corresponding to different climatic regimes during a dynamic period of climate change at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Lithic evidence suggests differences in the intensity of the two horizons, which has been interpreted as a response to climatic and environmental change (Clark et al, 1988;Neeley et al, 1997Neeley et al, , 1998Neeley et al, , 2000Olszewski et al, 2001;Olszewski and al-Nahar, 2014).…”

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Differential bone preservation and human foraging at the Early Epipaleolithic site of Tor at-Tareeq (WHS1065) in the western highlands of Jordan

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Quaternary International

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Three decades of archaeological investigation in the upper and lower horizons of the Early Epipaleolithic occupation at the site of Tor at-Tareeq (WHS1065) in the western highlands of Jordan have suggested that occupation intensity co-varied with climatic shifts at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum. The faunal record is a sensitive indicator of site occupation intensity, and allows us to further investigate diachronic change in human settlement at the site. Overall, preservation is of special concern, as it appears to have differentially impacted the faunal assemblages and may have influenced behavioral interpretations. Therefore, we apply a taphonomic analysis to the faunal assemblage from the 2012 excavation to investigate the nature and causes of the destruction of bones in each horizon. Our approach reveals differential destruction of the two faunal assemblages, although these did not impact the broad behavioral signatures from each horizon. Finally, we apply the prey choice model of behavioral ecology to test hypotheses for changing occupation intensity throughout the Early Epipaleolithic occupation. The study reveals an efficient subsistence strategy targeting higher-ranked adult ungulates and slow-moving tortoises, and attests to a stable low-intensity occupation across the two horizons.

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Section: The Sitementioning

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“…(Fig. 1) (MacDonald et al, 1983;Neeley et al, 1997Neeley et al, , 2000. The site covers a surface area of about 812 m 2 , although actual site size is ca.…”

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Differential bone preservation and human foraging at the Early Epipaleolithic site of Tor at-Tareeq (WHS1065) in the western highlands of Jordan

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“…The site constitutes a series of short-term base camps in proximity to a fossil spring deposit. Excavations carried out in 1984 and 1992 indicate the presence of microlithic industries for both an early (nongeometric) and a later (geometric) component (Clark et al 1988: Neeley et al 1998. Radiocarbon determinations from hearths in the earliest levels provide a range of dates between 16,900 and 15,580 B.P.…”

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Going Microlithic: A Levantine Perspective on the Adoption of Microlithic Technologies

Neeley

2002

Archaeological Papers of the American

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The shift to microlithic technologies is a widespread phenomenon over much of the globe during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. The occurrence of microliths in diverse geographical and temporal settings is a testament to their versatility and importance as a solution to the problems of survival. Using a perspective based on evolutionary theory, the adoption of microliths in the Levant is viewed from both a long‐term, regional perspective involving resource procurement and a short‐term, site‐centered perspective focusing on mobility strategies. The results suggest that microliths are correlated with changes in forager behavior associated with resource procurement and mobility and that an evolutionary framework is useful for addressing this process.

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Changing Settlement Organization in the Late Pleistocene of the Wadi al-Hasa, West-Central Jordan

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Clark

2024

J Paleo Arch

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Since the 1980s, surveys in Jordan’s Wadi al-Hasa document dozens of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer sites, some of them tested or partly excavated. To track landscape-scale forager mobility and settlement patterns over time, we examine 26 levels from 13 sites dated to the Middle, Upper, and Epipaleolithic using aspects of Barton’s whole assemblage behavioral indicators research protocol, a collection of methods designed to extract patterns from archeological palimpsests. Because forager ethnographies document adaptive strategies that do not map onto the discrete site types employed by archeologists, we evaluate the utility of the latter so far as behavioral inferences are concerned. We show that discrete bimodal contrasts like “curated” and “expedient” and their archeological correlates fail to capture the much more complex reality. Only by using these methods in conjunction with these analytical contrasts can a realistic picture of forager mobility and land use approximating that known from ethnography be attained.

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Investigations at Tor al-Tareeq: An Epipaleolithic Site in the Wadi el-Hasa, Jordan

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Differential bone preservation and human foraging at the Early Epipaleolithic site of Tor at-Tareeq (WHS1065) in the western highlands of Jordan

Differential bone preservation and human foraging at the Early Epipaleolithic site of Tor at-Tareeq (WHS1065) in the western highlands of Jordan

Going Microlithic: A Levantine Perspective on the Adoption of Microlithic Technologies

Changing Settlement Organization in the Late Pleistocene of the Wadi al-Hasa, West-Central Jordan

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