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Prehistoric Landscapes and Settlement Geography along the Wadi Hasa, West-Central Jordan. Part I: Geoarchaeology, Human Palaeoecology and Ethnographic Modelling

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  • Joseph Schuldenrein
  • Geoffrey A. Clark

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This essay is part of a continuing research program that investigates settlement patterns, palaeoenvironmental change, and archaeological variability in the earlier sites recorded by the Wadi Hasa Survey (WHS) in west-central Jordan (MacDonald 1988). In previous papers, we described both general and regional models for hunter-gatherer positioning strategies (Clark 1992), synthesised Levantine palaeoenvironmental information pertinent to the 100–10 kyr BP interval (Clark 1984, Schuldenrein and Clark 1994), and generated idealised site placement models based on relationships between site size and elevation in environments characterised by marked topographic relief (Coinman et al. 1988). Here we examine temporal distributions of cultural stratigraphic units within and across Hasa tributaries to determine whether or not correlations between site size and elevations indicate change over time in forager adaptations related to regional palaeoenvironmental fluctuations. Regional palaeoenvironmental models based on Mediterranean coastal data are themselves evaluated in terms of their applicability to inland Irano-Turanian steppe adaptations.

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  • Joseph Schuldenrein & Geoffrey A. Clark, 2001. "Prehistoric Landscapes and Settlement Geography along the Wadi Hasa, West-Central Jordan. Part I: Geoarchaeology, Human Palaeoecology and Ethnographic Modelling," Environmental Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(1), pages 23-38, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:yenvxx:v:6:y:2001:i:1:p:23-38
    DOI: 10.1179/env.2001.6.1.23
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