Different Ways of Being, Different Ways of Seeing … Changing Worldviews in the Near East

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Abstract

Prior to the period of the semi-sedentary Natufian complex, the Levant provides but sporadic and sometimes equivocal evidence for symbolic activities, with most of the material culture remains relating primarily to the mundane realm of mobile foraging bands. Yet those Upper Palaeolithic and early Epipalaeolithic bands clearly had an awareness of self identity, whether at the level of the individual, the family, the band, or the wider mating network – ‘us’ as opposed to ‘them’ (Goring-Morris and Belfer-Cohen 2002; Leroi-Gourhan 1981; Lewis-Williams 2002; and papers in Lee and Daly 1999). These social relationships were accompanied by worldviews with a structured
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLandscapes in Transition
EditorsBill Finlayson, Graeme Warren
Place of PublicationOxford and Oakville
PublisherCouncil for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
Pages9-22
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9781842174166
StatePublished - 2010

Publication series

NameLevant Supplementary Series
Volume8

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