Shelter or Hunting Camp? Accounting for the Presence of a Deeply Stratified Cave Site in the Syrian Steppe From: Near Eastern Archaeology | Date: June 1, 2006| Author: Schroeder, Bruce | Copyright American Schools of Oriental Research Jun 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

As I watched, the younger of the two wives in a Bedouin family clambered up the sloping surface of a massive stone ridge in the middle of the Syrian Desert. With an enormous rubber bladder on her back, she searched for water that, after an autumn rain, was captured in pockets in the rock. Wind blown debris along with the detritus of passing flocks was also caught in the pockets - not the most salubrious of water sources. In the fall of 1969 the Bedouin family was camped in front of the ridge,...

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