For more than a century, prehistoric research has focused on cave sites and rock shelters, mostly because of good preservation of organic remains associated with stratified anthropogenic layers. Manot Cave in the Western Galilee, Israel offers the possibility of studying prehistoric assemblages in pristine condition because of the collapse of the cave entrance some 30 thousand years ago. Nine years of excavations have uncovered an Early Upper Paleolithic archaeological sequence. Area C, situated at the bottom of the talus, was exposed to fast and slow depositional and postdepositional processes affecting sediment accumulation. The central part of area C was selected for this study, as it was least disturbed. Following a technotypological analysis, and taking postdepositional processes into consideration, the assemblages were defined and assigned to the Levantine Aurignacian, and Ahmarian traditions. The two archaeological horizons are separated by a mixed horizon within which indicative artifacts of both traditions alternately appear. The Ahmarian assemblage, dated to 46-42 ka cal BP, fits within the northern Mediterranean Ahmarian sites, which technotypologically differs from and is currently dated earlier than the southern desert region Ahmarian sites. The main technotypological characteristics of the assemblage from the Levantine Aurignacian Horizon, dated to 38-34 ka cal BP, are comparable to those from Manot Cave area E layers V-VI, and Ksâr 'Akil levels VII-VIII. Yet, several technotypological elements seem more compatible with the unnamed assemblage from Ksâr 'Akil levels XI-XIII and possibly layer IX from area E.

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对来自马诺特洞穴（C 区）的 Ahmarian 和 Levantine Aurignacian 组合的技术类型学分析以及与遗址形成过程的相互关系。

一个多世纪以来，史前研究一直集中在洞穴遗址和岩石掩体上，主要是因为与分层的人为层相关的有机遗迹得到了良好的保存。由于大约 3 万年前洞穴入口的坍塌，以色列西加利利的马诺特洞穴提供了研究处于原始状态的史前组合的可能性。经过九年的挖掘，发现了旧石器时代晚期早期的考古序列。位于距骨底部的 C 区暴露于影响沉积物积累的快慢沉积和沉积后过程。本研究选择了区域 C 的中心部分，因为它受到的干扰最少。根据技术类型分析，并考虑沉积后过程，这些组合被定义并分配给黎凡特的 Aurignacian 和 Ahmarian 传统。两个考古地平线被混合地平线隔开，两种传统的指示性文物交替出现。Ahmarian 组合，可追溯到 46-42 ka cal BP，适合地中海北部 Ahmarian 遗址，该遗址在技术类型上不同于南部沙漠地区 Ahmarian 遗址，目前的年代早于南部沙漠地区。来自黎凡特 Aurignacian Horizo​​n 的组合的主要技术类型学特征，可追溯到 38-34 ka cal BP，与来自 Manot Cave 区域 E 层 V-VI 和 Ksâr'Akil 层 VII-VIII 的组合具有可比性。然而，一些技术类型学元素似乎与来自 Ksâr'Akil XI-XIII 层和可能来自 E 区的 IX 层的未命名组合更兼容。