Late Acheulian stone-working by the riverbank: Patterns of continuity and change reflected in Jaljulia lithic assemblages, Israel

Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet; Aviad Agam; Ella Assaf; Bar Efrati; Yafit Kedar; Vlad Litov; Maayan Shemer; Ran Barkai

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0338540

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Late Acheulian stone-working by the riverbank: Patterns of continuity and change reflected in Jaljulia lithic assemblages, Israel

Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: tamarrosy@gmail.com

Affiliations Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel, Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5781-5440

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Aviad Agam,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Ella Assaf,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Bar Efrati,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Yafit Kedar,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Vlad Litov,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Maayan Shemer,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Charles Lewis Beach Hall, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1759-9462

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Ran Barkai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Late Acheulian stone-working by the riverbank: Patterns of continuity and change reflected in Jaljulia lithic assemblages, Israel

Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet,
Aviad Agam,
Ella Assaf,
Bar Efrati,
Yafit Kedar,
Vlad Litov,
Maayan Shemer,
Ran Barkai

Published: December 29, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0338540

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