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Title
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Kharaneh IV
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Subject
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Archaeological Site
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Creator
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Allysha A. Leonard
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Medium
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Cultural Materials
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Description
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This project explores the Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic periods to understand changing social organization and human-environment interactions through the analysis of a large hunter-gatherer aggregation site, Kharaneh IV. Through this analysis, we aim to reconstruct the broader social and economic relationships between people at this site and others in the surrounding hunter-gatherer world. To address long-term changes and explore the nature of hunter-gatherer behavior at the cusp of agriculture, this research examines the high-resolution archaeological record of multi-season, prolonged, and repeated habitation of the region’s largest and densest hunter-gatherer aggregation site in Jordan. At Kharaneh IV, ~20,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers congregated from across the region, leaving traces of architectural structures, human burials, and symbolic artifacts, hinting at emerging village settlement, economic intensification, and ritual behaviors associated with dwelling and intensive landscape use almost 10,000 years earlier than previously known from Neolithic farming villages.
Worked Bone 1 Illustration Part of a gazelle rib, 103 x 28, with two series of cut marks.
Worked Bone 3 Part of a gazelle rib, 103 x 28, with two series of cut marks. Incised bone from re-opening of Muheisen’s excavations in Area A (Middle Epipalaeolithic). Pattern of 6 incised lines, then 4 lines, then gap – repeated.
Worked Bone 6 Part of a mandible of a mammal, 90x 17 mm. Incised bone from re-opening of Muheisen’s excavations in Area A (Middle Epipalaeolithic).
Worked Bone 1 A Long Bone of A Mammal, 116 x 20 mm
Kharaneh IV BS58 Field Notes 6/22/2010-3/07/2010