Kebarans were the first anatomically modern humans to live in the eastern Mediterranean area (c. 18,000 to 10,000 BCE). They were a highly mobile nomadic people of hunters and gatherers in the Levant and Sinai areas who utilized microlithic tools. The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... The Levant or Sham (Arabic root word related to the term Semite) is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in Southwest Asia south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, and the north Arabian Desert and Mesopotamia to the east. ... Sinai Peninsula, Gulf of Suez (west), Gulf of Aqaba (east) from Space Shuttle STS-40 The Sinai Peninsula (in Arabic, Shibh Jazirat Sina) is a triangle-shaped peninsula lying between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea (to the south). ...
The Kebaran were also characterized by small, geometric microliths, and were thought to lack the specialized grinders and pounders found in later Near Eastern cultures.
The Kebaran were thought to occupy dispersal to upland environments in the summer, and aggregation in caves and rockshelters near lowland lakes in the winter. This diversity of environments may be the reason for the variety of tools found in the toolkits.
Being situated in the Terminal Pleistocene, the Kebaran is classified as an Epi-Palaeolithic society.
The Kebaran were also characterized by small, geometric microliths, and were thought to lack the specialized grinders and pounders found in later Near Eastern cultures.
The Kebaran were thought to practice dispersal to upland environments in the summer, and aggregation in caves and rockshelters near lowland lakes in the winter.
Being situated in the Terminal Pleistocene, the Kebaran is classified as an Epipalaeolithic society.
The goal of the 2002 season was to expose a relatively large surface area of the uppermost Geometric Kebaran deposit, and this was accomplished over an area of approximately 38 m
All material remaining in the 2 mm mesh was further wet-sieved in the lab for microartifact collection.
This year's excavation of the portion of these deposits that were in danger of eroding out of the site shows fairly convincingly that these constitute the remains of two or three individuals, possibly in flexed position (figure 2).
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