'Essential for specialists in the very early Near East, and is important and valuable for anyone interested in cultural ecology.' Choice

• 1 • Introduction and Overview: Evolutionary Ecology and Archaeology.- 2 • Late Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology of the Area in the Vicinity of Ras en Naqb.- 3 • Cultural-Historic Framework.- 4 • The Lower Paleolithic Site of Wadi Qalkha.- 5 • The Middle Paleolithic Sites.- 6 • Lithic Microwear Analysis of Tor Faraj Rockshelter.- 7 • Late Levantine Mousterian Patterns of Adaptation and Cognition.- 8 • The Upper Paleolithic Sites.- 9 • The Qalkhan Occupations.- 10 • The Hamran Sites.- 11 • The Madamaghan Sites.- 12 • The Natufian Sites and the Emergence of Complex Foraging.- 13 • Cultural Evolution and Interaction during the Epipaleolithic.- 14 • An Early Neolithic Hunting Camp: Jebel Queisa.- 15 • The Timnian and Pastoral Nomadism in the Chakolithic.- 16 • Pollen Analysis: Environmental and Climatic Implications.- 17 • Shells from the Wadi Hisma Sites.- 18 • Cementum Increment Analysis of Teeth from Wadi Judayid (J2) and Tor Hamar (J431): Estimations of Site Seasonality.- 19 • Preliminary Analysis of Phytoliths from Prehistoric Sites in Southern Jordan.- 20 • The Tor Hamar Fauna.- 21 • Adaptive Behaviors, Evolution, and Ethnicity.- References.- Series Publications.