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    to about 71,000 years BP at the Umm el Tlel open-air site, located on the northern slope of the Qdeir Plateau in el Kowm Basin in Central Syria. Microscopic...
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    sites D14, D18, D22, D27 A,B El-Quseir HaYonim Cave D Kebara Cave D Ksar Akil, shelter VII Raqefet Cave, level III-IV Umm el Tlel Mousterian & Aurignacian...
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    Significant Use of Bitumen in Middle Palaeolithic Technical Systems at Umm el Tlel (Syria) around 70,000 BP". Paléorient. 34 (2): 67–83. doi:10.3406/paleo...
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    long-ranged weapons. A wound on the neck of an African wild ass from Umm el Tlel, Syria, was likely inflicted by a heavy Levallois-point javelin, and...
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