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This volume reports and interprets a comprehensive set of archaeological analyses undertaken at the Middle Paleolithic rockshelter site of Tor Faraj, Jordan. The intent of these studies is to determine whether or not the occupants of this site, between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, utilized this rockshelter in an archaic or modern human fashion. The analytical results have important implications concerning the origins of modern humans. If the Tor Faraj folk were behaving archaically by utilizing a simple site structure while lacking nuclear-family organization, then their replacement by behaviorally complex and cognitively superior modern humans could have been expected. Alternatively, if these Middle Paleolithic people's behavior was no different from modern humans occupying rockshelters in the ethnographic present and the archaeological past, then the ascendance of modern humans may have been due simply to their technological superiority, rather than significant changes in their social organization or cognition. Donald O. Henry and his collaborators present a compellingly convincing case for the latter scenario. This suggests that the Neanderthals, rather than being biologically r

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Author

Andrew Kramer

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0883-6353)

Published

2005

Language

EN

Field

Earth and Planetary Sciences (Physical Sciences)