Publication Date:
2009-12-19
Description:
The spatial designation of discrete areas for different activities reflects formalized conceptualization of a living space. The results of spatial analyses of a Middle Pleistocene Acheulian archaeological horizon (about 750,000 years ago) at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel, indicate that hominins differentiated their activities (stone knapping, tool use, floral and faunal processing and consumption) across space. These were organized in two main areas, including multiple activities around a hearth. The diversity of human activities and the distinctive patterning with which they are organized implies advanced organizational skills of the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov hominins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Alperson-Afil, Nira -- Sharon, Gonen -- Kislev, Mordechai -- Melamed, Yoel -- Zohar, Irit -- Ashkenazi, Shosh -- Rabinovich, Rivka -- Biton, Rebecca -- Werker, Ella -- Hartman, Gideon -- Feibel, Craig -- Goren-Inbar, Naama -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Dec 18;326(5960):1677-80. doi: 10.1126/science.1180695.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel. alperson@mscc.huji.ac.il〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20019284" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Anthropology, Physical
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*Archaeology
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Fishes
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Geologic Sediments
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*Hominidae
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Israel
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Mammals
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Plants
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Tool Use Behavior
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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