“…Upper Paleolithic sites also are known now in the southern Arava valley (Henry, 1988), in Wadi Hasa (Clark et al, 1988), near Petra (Schyle and Uerpman, 1988), and in Gebel Qalkha (Coinman and Henry, 1995) in southern Jordan, in the Jordan Valley (Edwards et al, 1988), from the Azraq basin in northeastern Jordan (Garrard et al, 1987), and in the ElKowm Basin of the Palmyra desert in central Syria (Boeda and Muhesen, 1993).…”