Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution

Introduction and Overview. Late Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of the Area in the Vicinity of Ras en Naqb; F.A. Hassan. Culturalhistoric Framework. The Lower Paleolithic Site of Wadi Qalkha. The Middle Paleolithic Sites. Lithic Microwear Analysis of the Tor Faraj Rockshelter; J.J. Shea. Late Levantine Mousterian Patterns of Adaptation and Cognition. The Upper Paleolithic Sites; N.R. Coinman, D.O. Henry. The Qalkhan Occupations. The Hamran Sites. The Madamaghan Sites; D.O. Henry, C. Shen. The Natufian Sites and the Emergence of Complex Foraging. Cultural Evolution and Interaction during the Epipaleolithic. An Early Neolithic Hunting Camp: Jebel Queisa. The Timnian and Pastoral Nomadism in the Chalcolithic. Pollen Analysis: Environmental and Climatic Implications; A. Emery-Barbier. Shells from the Wadi Hisma Sites; D.S. Reese. Cementum Increment Analysis of Teeth from Wadi Judayid (J2) and Tor Hamar (J431): Estimations of Site Seasonality; D.E. Liberman. Analysis of Phytoliths: Seasonal, Economic, and Environmental Evidence; A.M. Rosen. The Tor Hamar Fauna; R.G. Klein. Adaptive Behaviors, Evolution, and Ethnicity. Index.