Finding the message in intricacy: The association of lithics and fauna on Lower Paleolithic Multiple Carcass Sites |
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Authors: | Michael Chazan Liora Kolska Horwitz |
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Affiliation: | aDepartment of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A1;bDepartment of Evolution, Systematics, and Ecology, The Hebrew University, Israel |
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Abstract: | This paper examines alternative models for the interpretation of Lower Paleolithic Multiple Carcass Sites based on analysis of the site of Holon, Israel. The nature of the lithic and faunal assemblages found at Holon are most consistent with a palimpsest site that represents repeated occupations of a marsh edge location by both hominids and carnivores, the remains of which have been moderated by natural agencies. It is argued that ambush hunting by hominids was likely to have been one of the activities involved in the accumulation of lithic and faunal remains on the site. A comparison of the lithic assemblage found at Holon with the lithic assemblages from Lower Paleolithic Single Carcass Sites suggest differences between the activities that took place on these sites and the type of activities that took place at Holon. |
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Keywords: | Lower Paleolithic Hunting Lithics Fauna |
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