The prehistory of the Levant includes the various cultural changes that occurred, as revealed by archaeological evidence, prior to recorded traditions...
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The Levant is the area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south...
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The Southern Levant is a geographical region encompassing the southern half of the Levant. It corresponds approximately to modern-day Israel, Palestine...
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Jacques Cauvin (section The Revolution of the Symbols)
December 2001) was a French archaeologist who specialised in the prehistory of the Levant and Near East. Cauvin started his work in France at Oullins Caves...
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Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years...
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Natufian culture (category Archaeological cultures of the Near East)
archaeological culture of the Neolithic prehistoric Levant in Western Asia, dating to around 15,000 to 11,500 years ago. The culture was unusual in that...
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Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (category Archaeological cultures of the Near East)
archaeology#Ceramics analysis Prehistory of the Levant Upper Mesopotamia#Prehistory Chazan, Michael (2017). World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways Through...
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The prehistory of Mesopotamia is the period between the Paleolithic and the emergence of writing in the area of the Fertile Crescent around the Tigris...
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of Israel History of ancient Israel and Judah History of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel History of Palestine (region) Prehistory of the Levant...
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Olivier Aurenche (category Articles with topics of unclear notability from January 2012)
working in the prehistory of the Levant and Near East. Olivier Aurenche; Marie Le Mière; Paul Sanlaville (2004). From the river to the sea: the palaeolithic...
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Epipalaeolithic Near East (redirect from Epipalaeolithic in the Levant)
Near East The Epipalaeolithic Near East designates the Epipalaeolithic ("Final Old Stone Age", also known as Mesolithic) in the prehistory of the Near East...
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The Muslim conquest of the Levant (Arabic: فَتْحُ الشَّام, romanized: Fatḥ al-šām; lit. 'Conquest of Syria'), or Arab conquest of Syria, was a 634–638...
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the Israel Defense Forces Military history of Israel Military ranks of Israel Local government in Israel History of Israel Prehistory of the Levant History...
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This timeline of prehistory covers the time from the appearance of Homo sapiens approximately 315,000 years ago in Africa to the invention of writing, over...
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Île du Levant (pronounced [il dy ləvɑ̃]), sometimes referred to as Le Levant, is a French island in the Mediterranean off the coast of the Riviera, near...
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Mina Weinstein-Evron (category Academic staff of the University of Haifa)
researches the prehistory of the Levant and Old World, palynology of the Eastern Mediterranean and Old World, the Quaternary period, and the agricultural...
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Alexis Mallon (category Archaeologists of the Near East)
He founded the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Jerusalem and made important early contributions to the study of the prehistory of the Levant with his excavations...
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Levantine archaeology (redirect from History of pottery in the Southern Levant)
is the archaeological study of the Levant. It is also known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology or Palestinian archaeology (particularly when the area of inquiry...
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The 1490s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1499 BC to December 31, 1490 BC. Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant (1504 BC–1492 BC). 1500 BC: Coalescence...
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Kebaran culture (category Prehistory of the Middle East)
Kebara Cave, south of Haifa. The Kebaran was produced by a highly mobile nomadic population, composed of hunters and gatherers in the Levant and Sinai areas...
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Ghassulian (category Ancient Levant)
Chalcolithic Period in the Levant". Journal of World Prehistory 2:397-443. Gilead, Isaac (1994). "The History of the Chalcolithic Settlement in the Nahal Beer Sheva...
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Harifian culture (category Archaeological cultures of the Near East)
International Monographs in Prehistory: 626. Bar-Yosef, Ofer (1998). "The Natufian culture in the Levant, threshold to the origins of agriculture". Evolutionary...
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Değirmentepe (category Archaeological sites of prehistoric Anatolia)
Early Bronze Age Southwest Asia. Ph.D. Thesis. University College London. p.77 Aratashen Prehistory of the Levant Prehistory of Mesopotamia Turkey portal...
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Neolithic (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Following the ASPRO chronology, the Neolithic started in around 10,200 BC in the Levant, arising from the Natufian culture, when pioneering use of wild cereals...
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Late Bronze Age collapse (redirect from Collapse of the bronze age)
The Hittite Empire spanning Anatolia and the Levant collapsed, while states such as the Middle Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia and the New Kingdom of Egypt...
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Near Eastern archaeology (redirect from Prehistory of Southwest Asia)
the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace and Egypt. The history of archaeological investigation in this region grew out of the 19th century discipline of biblical...
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Maisels, Charles (1999). Early civilizations of the old world:the formative histories of Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, India, and China. London New York:...
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who specialised in the prehistory of the Levant and Near East. Cauvin wrote with an impressive breadth and variety in a multitude of books, articles in...
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Mushabian culture (category Archaeological cultures of Asia)
2009.The Dynamics of Pleistocene and Early Holocene Settlement Patterns in the Levant: An Overview. In Transitions in Prehistory: Essays in Honor of Ofer...
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Prehistoric Cyprus (redirect from Prehistory of Cyprus)
to have originated from the Natufian culture of the neighbouring Levant. The last records of the endemic mammals other than the mouse date to shortly after...
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