Settlement Patterns and Intrasite Variability in the Central Negev, Israel (original) (raw)

1971, American Anthropologist

Recent examination of materials from the pre-neolithic (C14 age 7004f165 B.P.-8909+185B.P.) Asturian occupations o f Cantabrian Spain indicates exploitation o f two major bodies o f animal resources: (1) mammals especially woodland and forest-edge adapted ungulates (with a secondary concentration on alpine forms) and (2) marine molluscs, with intensive selection for limpets and topskell, littoral species from the intertidal zone. The pattern o f site location seems optimal for collection of coastal, forest, and montane resources with a minimum o f effort, The composition o f shellfish assemblages from the sites suggests that the Asturian occupation witnessed a climatic regimen somewhat warmer than that today. THIS PAPER deals with some of the (Fig. 1). They consist, with two exceptions, paleoecological aspects of an extinct cultural of brecciated midden deposits called "conadaptation called the "Asturian of cheros" because of their high shell content. Cantabria" (Vega del Sella 1914, 1916, Concheros have accumulated in the en-1921, 1923, 1930). Asturian sites are found trances of the caves which characterize this along the coastal portions of the provinces heavily karstified region since Aurignacian of Asturias and Santander in northern Spain time. Normally, little discernible stratig

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