Seasonal highs and lows in Jordan.Fieldwork field·work n. 1. A temporary military fortification erected in the field. 2. Work done or firsthand observations made in the field as opposed to that done or observed in a controlled environment. 3. in the mountains of southern Jordan over the past decade has uncovered clues to a seasonal migration strategy practiced for the past 70,000 years by the area's inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. , from prehistoric pre·his·tor·ic also pre·his·tor·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or belonging to the era before recorded history. 2. Of or relating to a language before it is first recorded in writing. hunter-gatherers to modern pastoralists. A survey of data from 109 archaeological sites indicates that the region's occupants regularly returned to long-term camps during the winter rainy season, when food and water availability hit their peak, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Donald O. Henry of the University of Tulsa. As these resources became scarcer in dry summer months, smaller groups fanned out to short-term outposts, where they sought readily obtainable provisions. Long-term settlements were built as close as possible to water sources at elevations where nighttime temperatures stayed above freezing, Henry contends. Until about 12,000 years ago, a cooler, rainier climate allowed long-term camps to spring up at low elevations, with warm-season sites situated higher in the mountains, he asserts in the July 15 SCIENCE. Warmer, drier conditions then fostered a reversal of this pattern, with long-term camps moving to higher ground. However, Natufian hunter-gatherers, who lived in the region from about 12,800 to 10,300 years ago, apparently stayed in one long-term camp for much of both the wet and dry seasons. Data from Israeli sites suggests that the Natufians spent most of the year in villages, where they specialized in gazelle gazelle, name for the many species of delicate, graceful antelopes of the genus Gazella, inhabiting arid, open country. Most gazelles are found only in Africa, but several species range over N Africa and SW Asia; the Persian, or goitered, gazelle ( hunting and gathering cereals, perhaps leading to the beginnings of agriculture, holds Daniel E. Lieberman of Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
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