Journal of Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences
Research Article(ISSN: 2690-5752)
Multidisciplinary Geological-Geophysical Analysis Unmasks
Anthropological Site Structure in the Northern Part of the
Levantine Corridor Volume 8 - Issue 3
Lev Eppelbaum1,2* and Youri Katz3
1School of Geosciences, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Azadlig Ave. 20, Baku AZ1010, Azerbaijan, Israel
3Steinhardt Museum of Natural History & National Research Center, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Received:June 02, 2023; Published: June 13, 2023
Corresponding author:Lev Eppelbaum, School of Geosciences, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 6997801,
Tel Aviv, Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Israel
The study of the ancient anthropological sites of the Levantine Corridor is very significant for understanding the evolution
of ancient hominins and the time of their dispersal from East Africa to the Caucasus and Eurasia. The event stratigraphy data
and paleomagnetic studies of the latest Cenozoic are comprehensively generalized for the Levantine region. Compiled integrated
structural-paleomagnetic-event stratigraphic chart enabled the exact correlation of the northern Levantine ancient hominin sites.
For a thorough analysis of the well-studied anthropological site of ‘Ubeidiya (located some km SW of the Sea of Galilee), we used the
following principal methodologies: paleogeographic research combined with examination of hydrospheric disturbances, analysis of
cyclic stratigraphy, generalization of detailed paleomagnetic stratigraphy, biostratigraphic correlation, lithological-facies analysis,
event stratigraphy, and structural-tectonic studies. Methods of comparative analysis of several anthropological sites surrounding
the site of ‘Ubeidiya were also employed. Comprehensive paleomagnetic mapping and profiling have been applied to a few areas in
the northern part of the Levantine corridor. It can reveal some essential tectonic-structural peculiarities of the sites disposed of this
strip. Paleogeographic and tectonic-geodynamic data analyses indicate that the Calabrian age of the ‘Ubeidiya site is discussable.
The constructed palinspastic reconstruction map (3.6 - 2.0 Ma) unmasked important tectonic-magmatic features of the area under
study. Based on the combined multifactor analysis, we propose that the age of this site can be significantly increased. The new
suggested age (Lower Matuyama - Gelasian) may require a revision of the entire global process of dispersal of primitive man from
Africa to the north.