The University Museum
The University of Tokyo



Bulletin No.29


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


Part IV: 1984 Excavations


Edited by Takeru Akazawa and Yutaka Sakaguchi



1987 TOKYO




CONTENTS

Introduction (T. Akazawa and Y. Sakaguchi)
  1. Paleocnvironments in Palmyra District during the Late Quaternary (Y. Sakaguchi)
  2. Thaniyyet Wuker: A Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Site on the Lacustrine Terrace of Paleo-Palmyra Lake (S. Fujii, T. Akazawa, Y. Nishiaki, and H. Wada)
  3. 1984 Excavations at Douara Cave: Methods and Techniques (T. Akazawa, T. Kimura, Y. Hirai, and S. Narasaki)
  4. Stratigraphy and Sedimentological Analysis of the Douara Cave Deposits, 1984 Excavations (Y. Hirai)
  5. Middle Paleolithic Assemblages from the Douara Cave, 1984 Excavations (Y. Nishiaki)
  6. Lithic Assemblages from the Wadi Fan Deposits at Douara (Y. Abe, Y. Nishiaki, and T, Akazawa)
  7. Plant Remains from the 1984 Excavations at Douara Cave (A. Matsutani)
  8. Paleomagnetic Study of the Middle Paleolithic Hearth at Douara Cave (H. Sakai)
  9. Thermoluminescence of Barite Nodules from the Middle Paleolithic Hearth at Douara Cave (K. Ninagawa, I. Yamamoto, N, Takahashi, N. Inoue, Y. Yamashita, T. Wada, and H. Sakai)
  10. 14C Dating by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry of Carbonized Plant Remains from a Middle Paleolithic Hearth at Douara Cave, Syria (K. Kobayashi, K. Yoshida, H. Nagai, M. Imamura, H. Yoshikawa, H. Yamashita, S. Okizaki, S. Yagi, T. Kobayashi, and M. Honda)
  11. The Ecology of the Middle Paleolithic Occupation at Douara Cave, Syria (T. Akazawa)




CONTRIBUTORS


Yoshito Abe
Department of Archaeology and Ethnology, Faculty of Letters, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Takeru Akazawa
Department of Anthropology and Prehistory, The University Museum, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Sumio Fujii
Okayama Orient Museum, Okayama, Japan
Yukihiro Hirai
Department of Geography, Faculty of Education, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
Masatake Honda
Department of Chemistry, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Mineo Imamura
Institute for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Naoki Inoue
Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan
Tasuku Kimura
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan
Koichi Kobayashi
Research Center for Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Takayuki Kobayashi
Department of Chemistry, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Akiko Matsutani
Department of Anthropology and Prehistory, The University Museum, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hisao Nagai
Department of Chemistry, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Shuichiro Narasaki
Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, U.S.A.
Kiyotaka Ninagawa
Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan
Yoshihiro Nishiaki
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Shohei Okizaki
Department of Chemistry, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Yutaka Sakaguchi
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hideo Sakai
Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, Toyama University, Toyama, Japan
Nobusuke Takahashi
Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan
Hisahiko Wada
Department of Archaeology, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Tomonori Wada
Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
Singo Yagi
Department of Chemistry, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo Japan
Isao Yamamoto
Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan
Hiroshi Yamashita
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshihiko Yamashita
Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
Kunio Yoshida
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hideki Yoshikawa
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan



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