The early evolution of the cultural Mediterranean landscape in Israel, with special reference to Mt. Carmel, is described with a holistic landscape-ecological systems approach as the coevolution of the paleolithic food gathererhunter and his landscapes. In addition to archeological findings and our research on fire ecology and the comparative dynamics of Mediterranean landscapes in Israel and C...

As with other crucial thresholds in cultural evolution, the impact of the ‘‘Neolithic Revolution,’’ as it was labeled by V. G. Childe,5 or the ‘‘incipient cultivation and domestication’’ as it was defined by R. Braidwood,6 can only be evaluated on the basis of its outcome. I begin with a brief description of the cultural sequence of the late hunter-gatherers who inhabited the Near East until ab...

Abstract The Zagros Mountains represent a strategic geographic region near the junction of Africa, Europe, and Asia, valleys within mountain range likely correspond to migration corridors used by archaic modern humans. Ghar-e Boof, key archeological site in southern Zagros, is located at an altitude 905 m.a.s.l. Dasht-e Rostam Fars Province, Iran. On basis lithic artifacts radiocarbon luminesce...