Book contents
- Quaternary of the Levant
- Quaternary of the Levant
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Quaternary of the Levant
- Part I: The Evolution of Current Landscapes and Basins
- Part II: Palaeoclimates
- Part III: Archaeology of Human Evolution
- 20 ‘Ubeidiya
- 21 Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov
- 22 Bizat Ruhama
- 23 Qesem Cave and the Acheulo-Yabrudian Cultural Complex of the Levant
- 24 Tabun Cave in the Carmel Culture Sphere
- 25 Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel
- 26 Hayonim Cave
- 27 Kebara Cave
- 28 Qafzeh Cave and Terrace
- 29 Palaeolithic Occupations in Nahal Amud
- 30 The Palaeolithic Sequence of Ksar ‘Akil, Lebanon
- 31 The Early Upper Palaeolithic of Manot Cave, Western Galilee
- 32 Mughr el-Hamamah
- 33 Ohalo II: A 23,000-Year-Old Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer's Camp on the Shore of Fluctuating Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee)
- 34 Eynan (Ain Mallaha)
- 35 Hilazon Tachtit Cave, a Late Natufian Burial Site in the Western Lower Galilee, Israel
- 36 The Palaeolithic Cultural Sequence of Dederiyeh Cave, Syria
- 37 Survey and Excavation of Stone Age Sites in Jordan's Wadi al-Hasa: 1979–2012
- Part IV: Palaeoecology
- Part V: Quaternary Geomorphology
- Part VI: Humans in the Levant
- Index
- Plate section
- References
30 - The Palaeolithic Sequence of Ksar ‘Akil, Lebanon
from Part III: - Archaeology of Human Evolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017
Book contents
- Quaternary of the Levant
- Quaternary of the Levant
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Quaternary of the Levant
- Part I: The Evolution of Current Landscapes and Basins
- Part II: Palaeoclimates
- Part III: Archaeology of Human Evolution
- 20 ‘Ubeidiya
- 21 Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov
- 22 Bizat Ruhama
- 23 Qesem Cave and the Acheulo-Yabrudian Cultural Complex of the Levant
- 24 Tabun Cave in the Carmel Culture Sphere
- 25 Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel
- 26 Hayonim Cave
- 27 Kebara Cave
- 28 Qafzeh Cave and Terrace
- 29 Palaeolithic Occupations in Nahal Amud
- 30 The Palaeolithic Sequence of Ksar ‘Akil, Lebanon
- 31 The Early Upper Palaeolithic of Manot Cave, Western Galilee
- 32 Mughr el-Hamamah
- 33 Ohalo II: A 23,000-Year-Old Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer's Camp on the Shore of Fluctuating Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee)
- 34 Eynan (Ain Mallaha)
- 35 Hilazon Tachtit Cave, a Late Natufian Burial Site in the Western Lower Galilee, Israel
- 36 The Palaeolithic Cultural Sequence of Dederiyeh Cave, Syria
- 37 Survey and Excavation of Stone Age Sites in Jordan's Wadi al-Hasa: 1979–2012
- Part IV: Palaeoecology
- Part V: Quaternary Geomorphology
- Part VI: Humans in the Levant
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
The Ksar Akil rockshelter, is located 10 km northeast of Beirut adjacent to the coastal plain in the foothills of the Lebanon Mountain range. During the 1930s and 1940s, 37 thick geological levels were identified, containing a succession of Epipalaeolithic, Upper Palaeolithic, and Middle Palaeolithic horizons from the rockshelter’s surface and extending ~23 ms down to bedrock. The Upper Palaeolithic levels have been extensively studied by numerous scholars and represent Atlitian, Levantine Aurignacian (sensu stricto), Northern Ahmarian, and Initial Upper Palaeolithic occupations. An anatomically modern child (Egbert, Ksar Akil 1), discovered in the Northern Ahmarian levels, is 40,850–39,200 or 41,050–38,300 cal BP (1σ or 2σ, respectively). Another human specimen recovered in the Initial Upper Palaeolithic levels, Ethelruda (Ksar Akil 2), is 42,400–41,750 or 42,850–41,550 cal BP (1σ or 2σ, respectively).
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