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Tor Aeid: An Upper Paleolithic Occupation in Southern Jordan

John K. Williams

Abstract

Over one meter of cultural deposits has been excavated at Tor Aeid, an Upper Paleolithic site located in the Jebel Qalkha region of southern Jordan.  A technotypological analysis was performed on the lithic assemblage, which contained predominantly Upper Paleolithic artifacts of an Ahmarian nature stratigraphically situated above a small Middle Paleolithic component.  The Upper Paleolithic artifacts are most akin to other sites in the southern Levant attributed to the early manifestation of the Ahmarian.