River Terraces of the Nahr el Kebir, NW Syria, and their Palaeolithic Record

Abstract

Revised correlation schemes are reported for fluvial and marine terraces in the Latakia area; NW Syria. These schemes indicate that the region has uplifted during the past four hundred thousand years at circa 0.4 mm a–1. The study region; in the Nahr el Kebir; is a rich source of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts but it is now clear that many of these have been reported from colluvium; not from in situ within the fluvial or marine deposits. However; the revised fluvial terrace scheme suggests the first appearance of Levallois technique in the region in MIS 8; consistent with western Europe