Emiran
Template:Continental Asia in 50000 BP | |
Geographical range | Levant, Arabia |
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Period | Upper Paleolithic |
Dates | about 60,000–40,000 cal B.P.[1][2] |
Preceded by | Mousterian, Aterian |
Followed by | Bohunician, Ahmarian, Levantine Aurignacian |
The Paleolithic |
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↑ Pliocene (before Homo) |
Lower Paleolithic (c. 3.3 Ma – 300 ka)
Middle Paleolithic (300–45 ka)
Upper Paleolithic (40–10 ka)
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↓ Mesolithic ↓ Stone Age |
Emiran culture was a culture that existed in the Levant (Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordan and Arabia) between the Middle Paleolithic and the Upper Paleolithic periods. It is the oldest known of the Upper Paleolithic cultures and remains an enigma as it transitionally has no clear African progenitor.[3] This has led some scholars to conclude that the Emiran is autochthonous to the Levant.[4] However, some argue that the Emiran reflects broader technological trends observed earlier in North Africa, at older sites like Taramsa 1 in Egypt, "which contains modern human remains dated to 75,000 years ago".[5]
Emiran period
Emiran culture may have developed from the local Mousterian without rupture, keeping numerous elements of the Levalloise-Mousterian, together with the locally typical Emireh point. The Emireh point is the type tool of stage one of the Upper Paleolithic, first identified in the Emiran culture.[6] Numerous stone blade tools were used, including curved knives similar to those found in the Châtelperronian culture of Western Europe.
The Emiran eventually evolved into the Ahmarian, and later the Levantine Aurignacian culture (formerly called Antelian), still of Levalloise tradition but with some Aurignacian influences.[7]
According to Dorothy Garrod, the Emireh point, known from several sites in Palestine, is the hallmark of this culture.[8]
Relationships
"Levantine Aurignacian", from the Levant, is a type of blade technology very similar to the European Aurignacian, following chronologically the Emiran and Early Ahmarian in the same area of the Near East, and closely related to them.[9]
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Emireh point microlith
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Emireh point.
See also
References
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Further reading
- M. H. Alimen and M. J. Steve, Historia Universal siglo XXI. Prehistoria. Siglo XXI Editores, 1970 (reviewed and corrected in 1994) (original German edition, 1966, titled Vorgeschichte). ISBN 84-323-0034-9
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