Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Lithics basics; 3. The Lower Paleolithic; 4. The Middle Paleolithic; 5. The Upper Paleolithic; 6. The Epipaleolithic; 7. The Neolithic; 8. Conclusion.

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This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.

About the Author

John J. Shea is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has conducted archaeological research at Stone Age sites in the Near East (Israel, Jordan, and Egypt) as well as in Eastern Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania). Shea is also a professional flintknapper (one who makes replicas of stone tools) and he has demonstrated these and other skills involving Stone Age technologies in numerous television documentaries. He is the co-author and co-editor of several books, most recently Out of Africa 1: The First Hominin Colonization of Eurasia (2010). His papers have been published in American Scientist, Current Anthropology, the Journal of Human Evolution, Evolutionary Anthropology, Paléorient, and the Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society.

Reviews

'In this useful volume, anthropologist Shea … fills an important niche by providing the first multi-period survey of Near Eastern stone tool typology and technology.' Choice

'… an excellent resource and one that certainly fills a long-standing gap in the literature for the Levant. Shea's volume on Levantine stone tools should be on every stone artifact researcher's bookshelf and also would serve as an excellent resource for a course on lithics.' Deborah I. Olszewski, PaleoAnthropology