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Schoenenberg, Jonathan and Sauer, Florian ORCID: 0000-0001-9687-4762 (2022). Intra-Site Structure of the Early Ahmarian Site of Al-Ansab 1, AH 1 (Jordan). J. Paleolith. Archaeol., 5 (1). LONDON: SPRINGERNATURE. ISSN 2520-8217

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Abstract

The Early Ahmarian represents an Early Upper Palaeolithic cultural unit, which spans throughout the Levant to the Sinai Peninsula. At least 40 sites belong to this unit. Both open-air and cave sites provide different amounts of archaeological material at various spatial resolutions. The team of the Collaborative Research Centre 806 Our Way to Europe excavated the site of Al-Ansab 1, Wadi Sabra, since 2009. The site provides one of the largest lithic assemblages of the Early Ahmarian. Analysis of intra-site distributions and patterns has been conducted for a small number of sites, providing scarce information on the spatial makeup of Early Ahmarian occupation layers. The internal structure testifies to repeated settlement without task specialisation. While this has been described for the sites on the Sinai Peninsula, the situation has been unclear for locations placed in the escarpments of the Transjordanian Highlands. At Al-Ansab 1, we can observe the repeated, relatively ephemeral occupation of a specific location in the Wadi Sabra for the execution of various tasks such as processing of faunal elements and raw material exploitation. Our results correlate to a pattern of mobility observable at other Early Ahmarian sites such as Abu Noshra II. These sites are usually attributed to relatively small and highly mobile bands of hunter-gatherers. Analysing these patterns of intra-site and regional spatial behaviour in the context of environmental patterning highlights potential external drivers to the expression of human occupation at sites such as Al-Ansab 1, archaeological horizon 1.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schoenenberg, Jonathan UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Sauer, Florian UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-9687-4762 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-659371
DOI:	10.1007/s41982-021-00103-7
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Paleolith. Archaeol.
Volume:	5
Number:	1
Date:	2022
Publisher:	SPRINGERNATURE
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	2520-8217
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language WADI DEPOSITS; MOBILITY Multiple languages Anthropology; Archaeology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/65937