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Chapter 2: THE MESOLITHIC OF THE LEVANT

Pre-History and Archaeology Glossary

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Mesolithic sites in the Levant were first found in Palestine and the cultural sequence has since been established more securely there than anywhere else. The earliest group of these sites determined on the evidence of stratigraphy and comparative typology was called Kebaran after the site where this phases was first defined in excavation by Turville-Petre .....

Excavations in the Mugharet Kebara
Turville-Petre (1932) Volume 32:271-276 (JSTOR)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Library of Congress # GN1 M 252

The History of the Ancient Near East Electronic Compendium