In:
Paléorient, PERSEE Program, Vol. 15, No. 2 ( 1989), p. 99-111
Abstract:
The rockshelter of Ksar Akil, Lebanon, has produced the longest known Upper Palaeolithic sequence of any site in the Levant. In 1937-1938 Ksar Akil was excavated by a team from Boston College, Massachusetts. The work of this team, while not being up to today's standards, was good for its time and the artefacts they recovered represent the only complete record of the entire Upper Palaeolithic sequence. In 1938 human skeletal material, believed to be part of a burial containing two juveniles, was discovered in an early Upper Palaeolithic level probably dating to 35.000 B.C. or earlier. The cranium and mandible of "Egbert", excavated from archaeological level XVII, can for the present be studied only through casts. These show that the specimen is unequivocally modern and gracile, deriving from a child aged by modern standards to about 7-9 years at death.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0153-9345
DOI:
10.3406/paleo.1989.4512
Language:
French
Publisher:
PERSEE Program
Publication Date:
1989
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2317127-3
SSG:
6,22
SSG:
6,11
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