Emiran
Arabia | |
Period | Upper Paleolithic |
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Dates | about 60,000–40,000 cal B.P.[1][2] |
Preceded by | Mousterian, Aterian |
Followed by | Bohunician, Ahmarian, Levantine Aurignacian |
The Paleolithic |
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↑ Pliocene (before Homo) |
↓ Mesolithic |
Emiran culture was a culture that existed in the
Emiran period
Emiran culture may have developed from the local Mousterian without rupture, keeping numerous elements of the Levalloise-Mousterian, together with the locally typical Emireh point. The Emireh point is the type tool of stage one of the Upper Paleolithic, first identified in the Emiran culture.[6] Numerous stone blade tools were used, including curved knives similar to those found in the Châtelperronian culture of Western Europe.
The Emiran eventually evolved into the
According to Dorothy Garrod, the Emireh point, known from several sites in Palestine, is the hallmark of this culture.[8]
Relationships
"Levantine Aurignacian", from the Levant, is a type of blade technology very similar to the European Aurignacian, following chronologically the Emiran and Early Ahmarian in the same area of the Near East, and closely related to them.[9]
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Emireh point microlith
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Emireh point.
See also
- Archaeology of Israel
- Zuttiyeh Cave
References
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- PMID 26034284.
- ^ Marks, Anthony; Rose, Jeff. "Through a prism of paradigms: a century of research into the origins of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Levant". In "Modes de contacts et de déplacements au Paléolithique Eurasiatique" – via www.academia.edu.
- ^ Douka, Katerina (2013). "Exploring "the great wilderness of prehistory": The chronology of the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic transition in the northern Levant". Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte. 22: 11–40 – via www.academia.edu.
- PMID 19571003.
- ^ Lorraine Copeland; P. Wescombe (1965). Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, p. 48 & Figure IV, 4, p. 150. Imprimerie Catholique. Retrieved 21 July 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ISBN 9781107006980.
- ISBN 9780202364209– via Google Books.
- ISBN 9781107006980.
Further reading
- M. H. Alimen and M. J. Steve, Historia Universal siglo XXI. Prehistoria. Siglo XXI Editores, 1970 (reviewed and corrected in 1994) (original German edition, 1966, titled Vorgeschichte). ISBN 84-323-0034-9