Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic gazelle hunting in the Badia of north-east Jordan. Reconstruction of seasonal movements of herds by stable isotope and dental microwear analyses

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Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic gazelle hunting in the Badia of north-east Jordan. Reconstruction of seasonal movements of herds by stable isotope and dental microwear analyses. / Henton, Elizabeth; Roe, Joseph; Martin, Louise; Garrard, Andrew; Boles, Oliver; Lewis, Jamie; Thirlwall, Matthew; Jourdon, Anne Lise.

In: Levant, Vol. 50, No. 2, 04.05.2018, p. 127-172.

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Henton, E, Roe, J, Martin, L, Garrard, A, Boles, O, Lewis, J, Thirlwall, M & Jourdon, AL 2018, 'Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic gazelle hunting in the Badia of north-east Jordan. Reconstruction of seasonal movements of herds by stable isotope and dental microwear analyses', Levant, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 127-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2019.1598764

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Henton, E., Roe, J., Martin, L., Garrard, A., Boles, O., Lewis, J., Thirlwall, M., & Jourdon, A. L. (2018). Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic gazelle hunting in the Badia of north-east Jordan. Reconstruction of seasonal movements of herds by stable isotope and dental microwear analyses. Levant, 50(2), 127-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2019.1598764

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Henton E, Roe J, Martin L, Garrard A, Boles O, Lewis J et al. Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic gazelle hunting in the Badia of north-east Jordan. Reconstruction of seasonal movements of herds by stable isotope and dental microwear analyses. Levant. 2018 May 4;50(2):127-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2019.1598764

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Henton, Elizabeth ; Roe, Joseph ; Martin, Louise ; Garrard, Andrew ; Boles, Oliver ; Lewis, Jamie ; Thirlwall, Matthew ; Jourdon, Anne Lise. / Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic gazelle hunting in the Badia of north-east Jordan. Reconstruction of seasonal movements of herds by stable isotope and dental microwear analyses. In: Levant. 2018 ; Vol. 50, No. 2. pp. 127-172.

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title = "Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic gazelle hunting in the Badia of north-east Jordan. Reconstruction of seasonal movements of herds by stable isotope and dental microwear analyses",
abstract = "In the north-east Jordan steppe, gazelle were of considerable economic importance to human groups during the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic. An influential model argues that gazelle herds migrated through the region and were only seasonally available to hunters. This study tests that model, asking whether gazelle were indeed highly seasonally mobile during these time frames, or whether they could have remained more local, adapted to periodically resource-rich habitats, and thus been available to hunters throughout the year. Interpretation of animal location, diet and season, through stable isotope analyses and microwear studies of archaeological gazelle teeth from ten chronologically and spatially varied sites, suggests herds did not migrate. Rather, gazelle appear to have had relatively local year-round habitats in the steppe during the Epipalaeolithic at least, while possibly ranging further and becoming more mobile in the Neolithic.",
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author = "Elizabeth Henton and Joseph Roe and Louise Martin and Andrew Garrard and Oliver Boles and Jamie Lewis and Matthew Thirlwall and Jourdon, {Anne Lise}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by The Leverhulme Trust under grant RPG-2013-223. We are grateful to the Department of Antiquities, Jordan, and to the British Institute in Amman, CBRL, for their support in Jordan. We thank Alison Betts, Lisa Maher, Tobias Richter and Gary Rollefson for permission to study materials. Many thanks also to Lisa Yeomans, Sandra Bond and Tom Gregory for research support. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, {\textcopyright} Council for British Research in the Levant 2019.",
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