Emiran culture was a culture that existed in the
Levant (
Lebanon,
Palestine,
Syria,
Jordan and
Arabia) between the
Middle Paleolithic and the
Upper Paleolithic periods. It is the oldest known of the
Upper Paleolithic cultures and remains an enigma as it transitionally has no clear African progenitor.[3] This has led some scholars to conclude that the Emiran is
indigenous to the Levant.[4] However, some argue that it reflects broader technological trends observed earlier in
North Africa, at older sites like Taramsa 1 in Egypt, "which contains modern human remains dated to 75,000 years ago".[5]
Emiran period
Emiran culture may have developed from the local
Mousterian without rupture, keeping numerous elements of the
Levalloise-Mousterian, together with the locally typical Emireh point. The Emireh point is the type tool of stage one of the
Upper Paleolithic, first identified in the Emiran culture.[6] Numerous stone blade tools were used, including curved knives similar to those found in the
Châtelperronian culture of Western Europe.
^Rose, Jeffrey I.; Marks, Anthony E. (2014). ""Out of Arabia" and the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Southern Levant". Quartär. 61: 49–85.
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M. H. Alimen and M. J. Steve, Historia Universal siglo XXI. Prehistoria. Siglo XXI Editores, 1970 (reviewed and corrected in 1994) (original German edition, 1966, titled Vorgeschichte).
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