Amudia

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With Amudien a period of time is called, which is marked by one of the oldest archaeological blade industries. The Amudien belongs to the Middle Paleolithic Age ( Middle Paleolithic ) and occurs in the Middle East from around 130,000 BC. Chr. On.

With this period, the Amudien occupies a special position, since the other blade industries only between about 40,000-10,000 BC. Existed. It seems that after the Amudia the production of blades was not continued at all (or possibly in Jabrudia ) and the blade was only reinvented some ten thousand years later, in the younger Paleolithic ( Upper Palaeolithic ). The question of a possible connection between the Amudia, the Jabrudia and the Upper Paleolithic blade industry depends on the dating of the Amudia, but this is controversial.

The excavations of the Carmel caves (Tabun) revealed some details in the sequence of the Paleolithic cultures of the Levant. Many layers could be dated using the potassium-argon method and the radiocarbon method . The oldest finds came from the early Paleolithic, the late Acheuléen (550,000-175,000 BC). This was followed by complexes in which the first phase of the Jabrud culture ( Jabrudia - 175,000-100,000 BC) , which led to the Moustérien , predominated. The Amudia belongs together with the second phase of the Jabrud culture to the Moustérien (100,000 BC to 35,000 BC). This is followed by the device industries of the Aurignacien (35,000-17,000 BC) and the Kebaran (17,000 to 10,500 BC), which belong to the late Paleolithic. The subsequent Natufien (10,500 to 8,500 BC) already belonged to the Neolithic.

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