The Wadi el Ḥasā Archaeological Survey 1979-1983, West-Central Jordan. B. MacDonald.Map of Har Ḥamran-Southwest (198). M. Haiman.

Test excavations in 1984 at the middle palaeolithic rockshelter of 'Ain Difla (Wadi Hasa Survey Site 634) in west-central Jordan produced a lithic assemblage dominated by elongated levallois points with very few retouched tools. Length/width ratios of the levallois points and width/thickness ratios of a sample of complete flakes suggest an affinity with Tabun D/Phase 1 mousterian sites. This kind of assemblage is generally thought to occur during the early Levantine mousterian. However, there is evidence of persistence of Tabun D assemblages in the southern Levant until the middle/upper palaeolithic transition. Comparing the ’Ain Difla lithic assemblage with those of other Levantine mousterian sites underscores problems with the analytical frameworks used to ‘date’ sites through technological and metrical analyses. A rather coarse-grained regional paleoenvironmental sequence exacerbates these problems.

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Archaeological survey of settlement patterns in the Banda region, West-Central Ghana: exploring external influences and internal responses in the West African frontier

Azania Archaeological Research in Africa ◽

10.1080/00671990903052322 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 275-276 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Leith Smith

Keyword(s):

Settlement Patterns ◽

West African ◽

Archaeological Survey ◽

The West ◽

External Influences ◽

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Banda Region

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Middle Paleolithic Assemblage and Settlement Variability in West-Central Jordan. James M. Potter. Anthropological Research Papers No. 45. Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, 1993. v + 59 pp., figures, tables, bibliography. ’10.00 (paper).

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/282290 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 60 (3) ◽

pp. 587-588

Author(s):

Anthony E. Marks

Keyword(s):

Middle Paleolithic ◽

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Central Jordan ◽

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Complex communities: the archaeology of early Iron Age west-central Jordan

Choice Reviews Online ◽

10.5860/choice.51-5105 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 51 (09) ◽

pp. 51-5105-51-5105

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Iron Age ◽

Early Iron Age ◽

West Central ◽

Central Jordan

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The Wadi el Ḥasā Archaeological Survey 1979-1983, West-Central Jordan. B. MacDonald.Map of Har Ḥamran-Southwest (198). M. Haiman.

Prehistoric Settlement in West-Central Jordan: The Tafīla-Busayra Archaeological Survey in Its Regional Context

The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey 1999-2001, West-Central Jordan. Burton MacDonald, Larry G. Herr, Michael P. Neeley, Traianos Gagos, Khaled Moumani, and Marcy Rockman.

The Wadi el Hasā Archaeological Survey 1979-1983, West-Central Jordan Burton MacDonald Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1988. xiv + 404 p

The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey 19992001, West-Central Jordan. By Burton MacDonald et al. American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports 9. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2004. Pp. xvi + 435 + 36 figs. $99.95.

Natufian Settlement in the Wadi al-Qusayr, West-Central Jordan

An Archaeological Survey of West Central New Mexico and East Central Arizona. Edward B. Danson. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 44, No. 1, Cambridge, 1957. ix + 133 pp., 18 figs., 23 tables. $4.50.

A Preliminary Lithic Analysis of the Mousterian Site of ’Ain Difla (WHS Site 634) in the Wadi Ali, West-Central Jordan

Archaeological survey of settlement patterns in the Banda region, West-Central Ghana: exploring external influences and internal responses in the West African frontier

Middle Paleolithic Assemblage and Settlement Variability in West-Central Jordan. James M. Potter. Anthropological Research Papers No. 45. Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, 1993. v + 59 pp., figures, tables, bibliography. ’10.00 (paper).

Complex communities: the archaeology of early Iron Age west-central Jordan

The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey 19992001, West-Central Jordan. By Burton MacDonald et al. American Schools of Oriental Research Archaeological Reports 9. Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2004. Pp. xvi + 435 + 36 figs. $99.95.