"Intention, Choice and Agency", Comment on Barkai et al., Why is Cave Art Absent from the Upper Paleolithic Southern Levant?

I begin my commentary by acknowledging that I am not an expert in the archaeology of the southern Levant and cannot comment on the data regarding antiquity of migration patterns. Instead, my interest in the article is conceptual, and what the ideas raised by Barkai et al bring to considerations of absence in archaeological contexts...