Multidisciplinary research on the Early-Middle Pleistocene site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov has yielded abundant climatic, environmental, ecological and behavioral records. The 15 archaeological horizons form a sequence of Acheulian occupational episodes on the shore of the paleo-Lake Hula. These enable us to reconstruct numerous aspects of the survival and adaptation of ancient hominins, leading to a better understanding of their evolution and behavior. This book presents the faunal analyses of medium-sized and large mammals, providing taxonomic, taphonomic and actualistic data for the largest faunal assemblages. The study of modes of animal exploitation reveals valuable information on hominin behavior.

1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE ACHEULIAN SITE OF GESHER BENOT YAa¿¿AQOV 3. MATERIALS AND METHODOLOGY 4. SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY 5. TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS 6. RECONSTRUCTING SITE-FORMATION PROCESSES AT GBY - THE EXPERIMENTS 7. A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE TAPHONOMIC HISTORY OF GBY 8. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS