The First Traces of Man. The Palaeolithic Period (<1.5 million – ca 20,000 years ago)

Jordan is extraordinarily rich in archaeological remains of the Paleolithic periods, largely because deflation has concentrated stone artifacts derived from land surfaces that have long since disappeared from the modern landscape and because, in many parts of the country, remaining Pleistocene land surfaces have not been buried by Holocene deposition, as is the case in Europe. The Levant, in general, and Jordan, in particular, also lie at the cross-roads between Africa, Europe and Asia, so th..