The correlation between Hamra and the Paleolithic on the Coastal Plain of the Southern Levant

✍ Scribed by Stanislav A. Laukhin; Vadim A. Ranov; Valerya A. Volgina

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 692 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0883-6353
• DOI: 10.1002/gea.20178

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Fieldwork and literature studies indicate that Paleolithic sites of the coastal plain in the Southern Levant were connected with climatic changes and transgressive‐regressive cycles of the Mediterranean Sea. The presence of archaeological sites corresponds with periods of regressions, during which hamra (a local variety of red soils) formed and was subsequently reworked by slope processes. When the hamra was inundated by shallow lakes, people could settle on the lake shores. Six types of connections have been documented between Paleolithic sites and hamra pedocomplexes. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.