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    Note préliminaire sur le Quaternaire dans la vallée du Nahr 'Afrin (Syrie)

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    Note préliminaire sur le Quaternaire dans la vallée du Nahr 'Afrin (Syrie)

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    Le Paléolithique de Hummal à El Kowm: premier bilan des fouilles syro-suisses 1999-2008

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    La région d'El Kowm est un territoire exceptionnel en ce qui concerne les périodes les plus anciennes de la Préhistoire du Moyen-Orient. Dans le cadre d'un projet syro-suisse, financé conjointement par le Fonds National Suisse et la Direction Générale des Anitquités et Musées de Syrie, les recherches entreprises depuis 25 ans par l'Institut de Préhistoire de l'Université de Bùle étroitement associé aux chercheurs de l'Université de Damas ont fait progresser de maniÚre remarquable la connaissance de l'evolution des cultures humaines dans leur cadre chronologique et environnemental (géologie, climatologie, faunes, flores et évolution biologique de l'homme). Les nouvelles fouilles entreprises dans le site de Hummal, ont révélé une des plus grandes stratigraphies paléolithiques du Proche-Orient

    The evolved recent Acheulian of Syria

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    Le Paléolithique d'El Kowm. Rapport préliminaire

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    At the request of.Jacques Cauvin, Director of the French Permanent Mission at El Kowm (central Syria), the team of the R.C.P. 438, during the summer of 1980, studied the geomorphology of the El Kowm basin and completed an archaeological survey of the area focusing principally on the Palaeolithic. The El Kowm basin appears to have been extensively populated from the end of the Acheulean until the end of the Middle Palaeolithic. On 51 sites, it has been possible to identify different facies of the Final Acheulean, on eight sites were Yabroudian assemblages, and on several others were found variants of Middle Palaeolithic industries. Many of these assemblages are contained in mounds built by hydro-aeolian processes around annual springs, a feature which is characteristic of the el Kowm area.A la demande de Jacques Cauvin, Directeur de la Mission Permanente d'EI Kowm. la R.C.P. 438 a effectué l'étude géomorphologique du bassin d'El Kowm (Syrie centrale), et complété la prospection de la région, surtout du point de vue du Paléolithique. Le bassin paraßt avoir été intensément occupé de la fin de l'Acheuléen à la fin du Paléolithique moyen. Cela se traduit, dans 51 sites, par la présence de faciÚs variés d'Acheuléen final, l'existence de huit gisements yabroudiens, et de sites contenant plusieurs types de Paléolithique moyen. Beaucoup de ces gisements sont contenus dans des tertres édifiés par un processus hydro-éolien autour de sources artésiennes, ce qui est assez particulier au bassin d'El Kowm.Besançon Jacques, Copeland Lorraine, Hours F., Muhesen S., Sanlaville Paul. Le Paléolithique d'El Kowm. Rapport préliminaire. In: Paléorient, 1981, vol. 7, n°1. pp. 33-55

    Neanderthal infant burial from the Dederiyeh cave in Syria.

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    A well-preserved Neanderthal infant burial was found in 1993 in the Dederiyeh Cave, Syria. The remains of this infant, about two years old, were located in the Mousterian deposit. Its position on the back, with arms extended and legs flexed, indicated an intentional burial. The burial brings new data on the association between Neanderthals and a Tabun В type of industry as well as on the geographic distribution Neanderthals in the Levant.Une sĂ©pulture bien prĂ©servĂ©e d'un enfant NĂ©andertal fut trouvĂ©e en 1993 dans la grotte de Dederyeh en Syrie. Les restes de cet enfant, environ deux ans d'Ăąge, ont Ă©tĂ© dĂ©gagĂ©s dans les dĂ©pĂŽts moustĂ©riens. La position du dos, les bras Ă©tendus et les jambes flĂ©chies indiquent une sĂ©pulture intentionelle. Cette sĂ©pulture apporte de nouvelles donnĂ©es sur l'association entre les NĂ©andertals et l'industrie de type Tabun В ainsi que sur la distribution des NĂ©andertals au Levant.Akazawa Takeru, Muhesen S., Dodo Yukio, Kondo Osamu, Mizoguchi Yuji, Abe Yoshito, Nishiaki Yoshihiro A., Ohta Shoji, Oguchi Takashi, Haydal Jamal. Neanderthal infant burial from the Dederiyeh cave in Syria.. In: PalĂ©orient, 1995, vol. 21, n°2. pp. 77-86

    A Neolithic innovation in eastern Arabia: haematite axes and adzes

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    International audienceWell before metallurgy, Neolithic societies in the Gulf were engaging in a very peculiar form of metal object production, particularly of axes and adzes made from haematite. In the heart of the Neolithic Middle East, this innovation was specific to Arabian shores between the Musandam and Qatar peninsulas. Quite infrequent among Neolithic lithic assemblages from Arabia, axes and adzes were mostly collected on the surface of domestic settlements. One is often dealing with objects to which the most focus has been given, apart from arrowheads and projectile points. Several sites or outcrops are present on the Emirati coastline and Gulf islands. Inland mountain ranges also include some of these. From Ra’s al‐Khaimah to Qatar, only 500 km separate the most distant Neolithic domestic settlements which possess haematite axes or hoes, a distance that is quite small when one considers the circulation of polished stone blades in other societies of the same period. Within the Middle East, south‐eastern Arabia during the Neolithic engaged in a very original means of production of metal objects, as the latter did not focus on copper, a very malleable and much more available material, but on haematite, which was much harder
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