Cultural change and the epipalaeolithic of Palestine / Robert O. Fellner.

Slight revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of London, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195)

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Environment -- Morphology -- Climate and plant-geography -- The natural environment between 20'000 and 10'000 BP -- Chapter 3. The culture-historical framework -- The Theory of Typology -- The Epipalaeolithic -- Chapter 4. Methodology -- Typology and data selection -- Statistical methods -- Chapter 5. Typology -- Cluster analysis of detailed microlith counts -- Subdiving the Kebaran -- Trapeze and rectangle width in the Geometric Kebaran -- Chapter 6. Technology -- Raw material -- Reduction technology -- The microburin technique -- Chapter 7. Function -- Use-wear analysis -- Function and morphology -- Chapter 8. Bone tools, ground stone implements, ornaments and art -- Bone Tools -- Bone Ornaments -- Marine Molluscs -- Ground stone tools -- Art -- Chapter 9. Food procurement -- Faunal remains -- Plants foods -- Dietary evidence from human remains -- Chapter 10. Structures, burials and settlement Patterns -- Structures -- Burials -- Settlement patterns -- Chapter 11. Summary and conclusions -- A summary -- Current explanations -- Theoretical Considerstions -- An attempt at explaining cultural change in the Epipalaeolithic of Palestine.