The University Museum
The University of Tokyo



Bulletin No. 14


PALEOLITHIC SITE OF DOUARA CAVE
AND
PALEOGEOGRAPHY
OF PALMYRA BASIN IN SYRIA

Part I: Stratigraphy and Paleogeography
in the Late Quaternary



Edited by
Kazuro HANIHARA and Yutaka SAKAGUCHI


1978 TOKYO





CONTENTS


1. Introduction (K. Hanihara)
2. Palmyra Pluvial Lake (Y. Sakaguchi)
3. Climato-genetic Landforms around Jabal ad Douara and Its Surroundings (T. Koizumi)
4. Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Deposits in and around the Douara Cave Site (K. Endo)
5. Excavation at the Douara Cave (B. Endo, T. Fujimoto, T. Akazawa, and K. Endo)
6. The Assemblages of Site 50 (T. Fujimoto)
7. Concluding Remarks (Y. Sakaguchi)
Appendix: Petrological Study of Flints from the Douara Basin, Northeast of Palmyra (Y. Saito and T. Tiba)




Kazuro HANIHARA
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo
Yutaka SAKAGUCHI
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo




Index page