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The aim of this chapter is to draw attention to shifting boundaries between prehistoric populations who inhabited the Mediterranean Levant during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. This focus will permit us to have a better understanding of what had happened before the establishment of farming communities.
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Bar-Yosef, O. (1987). Late Pleistocene Adaptations in the Levant. In: Soffer, O. (eds) The Pleistocene Old World. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1817-0_14
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