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UNINA9910793278003321 |
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Bar-Yosef Ofer |
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Natufian foragers in the Levant : terminal Pleistocene social changes in Western Asia / / edited by Ofer Bar-Yosef & Francois R. Valla |
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Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : International Monographs in Prehistory, , 2013 |
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1 online resource (xix, 717 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Archaeological series ; ; 19 |
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Social change - Middle East - History - To 1500 |
Social archaeology - Middle East |
Natufian culture - Middle East |
Pleistocene-Holocene boundary |
Hunting and gathering societies - Middle East |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Middle East |
Middle East Antiquities Congresses |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Papers from a symposium held in 2009. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface The Natufian Culture in the Levant: Twenty Years Later -- Acknowledgements -- Northern Levant -- Natufian Lifeways in the Eastern Foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains -- The Natufian of Moghr el-Ahwal in the Qadisha Valley, Northern Lebanon -- The Natufian of Southwestern Syria Sites in the Damascus Province -- The Natufian Occupations of Qarassa 3 (Sweida, Southern Syria) -- The Early Natufian Site of Jeftelik (Homs Gap, Syria) -- Fish in the Desert? The Younger Dryas and its Influence on the Paleoenvironment at Baaz Rockshelter, Syria -- Preliminary Results from Analyses of Charred Plant Remains from a Burnt Natufian Building at Dederiyeh Cave in Northwest Syria -- Southern Levant -- El-Wad -- Spatial Organization of Natufian el-Wad through Time: Combining the Results of Past and Present Excavations -- The Last Natufian Inhabitants of el-Wad Terrace -- Domestic Refuse Maintenance in the Natufian: Faunal Evidence from el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel -- Natufian Green Stone Pendants from el-Wad: Characteristics and Cultural Implications -- Eynan -- The Final |
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Natufian Structure 215-228 at Mallaha (Eynan), Israel: an Attempt at Spatial Analysis -- A Study of two Natufian Residential Complexes: Structures 200 and 203 at Eynan (Ain Mallaha), Israel -- Graves in Context: Field Anthropology and the Investigation of Interstratified Floors and Burials -- Obsidian in Natufian Context: The Case of Eynan (Ain Mallaha), Israel -- Flint Knapping and its Objectives in the Early Natufian: the Example of Eynan- Ain Mallaha (Israel) -- Searching for the Functions of Fire Structures in Eynan (Mallaha) and their Formation Processes: a Geochemical Approach -- Avifauna of the Final Natufian of Eynan -- Bone Ornamental Elements and Decorated Objects of the Natufian from Mallaha -- Reconstruction of the Habitats in the Ecosystem of the Final Natufian Site of Ain Mallaha (Eynan) -- Southern Levant - other sites -- Wadi Hammeh 27: an Open-air ‘Base-camp’ on the Fringe of the Natufian ‘Homeland’ -- Art Items from Wadi Hammeh 27 -- The Final Epipaleolithic / PPNA site of Huzuq Musa (Jordan Valley) -- Natufian Settlement in the Wadi al-Qusayr, West-Central Jordan -- The Steppic Early Natufian: Investigations in the Wadi al-Hasa, Jordan -- The Natufian of the Azraq Basin: An Appraisal -- Chert Procurement Patterns and Exploitation Territory: Case Study from Late Natufian Hayonim Terrace (Western Galilee, Israel) -- A Faunal Perspective on the Relationship between the Natufian Occupations of Hayonim Cave and Hayonim Terrace -- The Natufian at Raqefet Cave -- Hof Shahaf: A New Natufian Site on the Shore of Lake Kinneret -- The Life History of Macrolithic Tools at Hilazon Tachtit Cave -- General Reviews, Climate and Interpretations -- Breaking the Mold: Phases and Facies in the Natufian of the Mediterranean Zone -- Ruminations on the Role of Periphery and Centre in the Natufian -- The Natufian and the Younger Dryas -- Scaphopod Shells in the Natufian Culture -- The Natufian Chronological Scheme – New Insights and their Implications -- Natufian Foragers and the ‘Monocot Revolution’: A Phytolith Perspective -- Lithic Technology in the Late Natufian – Technological Differences between ‘Core-area’ and ‘Periphery’ -- Variability of Lunates and Changes in Projectile Weapons Technology during the Natufian -- Specialized Hunting of Gazelle in the Natufian: Cultural Cause or Climatic Effect? -- Commensalism: was it Truly a Natufian Phenomenon? Recent Cntributions from Ethnoarchaeology and Ecology |
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This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture. |
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UNINA9910495870003321 |
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Shrader-Frechette K. S. |
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Burying Uncertainty : Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste / / K. S. Shrader-Frechette |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1993] |
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©1993 |
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1-282-35497-3 |
9786612354977 |
0-520-91396-5 |
0-585-29941-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (363 p.) |
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Radioactive waste disposal in the ground - Environmental aspects |
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground - Risk assessment |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Riddle of Nuclear Waste -- 2. Understanding the Origins of the Problem -- 3. Reliance on Value Judgments in Repository Risk Assessment -- 4. Subjective Estimates of Repository Risks -- 5. Subjective Evaluations of Repository Risks -- 6. Problematic Inferences in in Assessing Repository Risks -- 7. Uncertainty: An Obstacle to Geological Disposal -- 8. Equity: An Obstacle to Geological Disposal -- 9. .An Alternative to Permanent Geological Disposal -- Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects |
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Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically. What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing problems faced by the nuclear power industry, and current U.S. government policy is to bury "radwastes" in specially designed deep repositories. K. S. Shrader-Frechette argues that this policy is profoundly misguided on both scientific and ethical grounds. Scientifically-because we cannot trust the precision of 10,000-year |
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predictions that promise containment of the waste. Ethically-because geological disposal ignores the rights of present and future generations to equal treatment, due process, and free informed consent. Shrader-Frechette focuses her argument on the world's first proposed high-level radioactive waste facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Analyzing a mass of technical literature, she demonstrates the weaknesses in the professional risk-assessors' arguments that claim the site is sufficiently safe for such a plan. We should postpone the question of geological disposal for at least a century and use monitored, retrievable, above-ground storage of the waste until then. Her message regarding radwaste is clear: what you can't see can hurt you. |
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