Natufian Foragers in the Levant

Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia

Ofer Bar-Yosef, François R. Valla

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781879621459
  9781879621466
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789201574
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

This large volume presents virtually all aspects of the Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture in a series of chapters that cover recent results of field work, analyses of materials and sites, and synthetic or interpretive overviews of various aspects of this important prehistoric culture.

Table of contents

• Natufian Foragers in the Levant
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1. Natufian Lifeways in the Eastern Foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains
• Chapter 2. The Natufian of Moghr el-Ahwal in the Qadisha Valley, Northern Lebanon
• Chapter 3. The Natufian of Southwestern Syria Sites in the Damascus Province
• Chapter 4. The Natufian Occupations of Qarassa 3
• Chapter 5. The Natufian Occupations of Qarassa 3 (Sweida, Southern Syria)
• Chapter 6. The Early Natufian Site of Jeftelik (Homs Gap, Syria)
• Chapter 7. Fish in the Desert?
• Chapter 8. Preliminary Results from Analyses of Charred Plant Remains from a Burnt Natufian Building at Dederiyeh Cave in Northwest Syria
• Chapter 9. Spatial Organization of Natufian el-Wad through Time
• Chapter 10. The Last Natufian Inhabitants of el-Wad Terrace
• Chapter 11. Domestic Refuse Maintenance in the Natufian
• Chapter 12. Natufian Green Stone Pendants from el-Wad
• Chapter 13. The Final Natufian Structure 215-228 at Mallaha (Eynan), Israel
• Chapter 14. A Study of two Natufian Residential Complexes
• Chapter 15. Graves in Context
• Chapter 16. Obsidian in Natufian Context
• Chapter 17. Flint Knapping and its Objectives in the Early Natufian
• Chapter 18. Searching for the Functions of Fire Structures in Eynan (Mallaha) and their Formation Processes
• Chapter 19. Avifauna of the Final Natufian of Eynan
• Chapter 20. Bone Ornamental Elements and Decorated Objects of the Natufian from Mallaha
• Chapter 21. Reconstruction of the Habitats in the Ecosystem of the Final Natufian Site of Ain Mallaha (Eynan)
• Chapter 22. Wadi Hammeh 27
• Chapter 23. Art Items from Wadi Hammeh 27
• Chapter 24. The Final Epipaleolithic / PPNA site of Huzuq Musa (Jordan Valley)
• Chapter 25. Natufian Settlement in the Wadi al-Qusayr, West-Central Jordan
• Chapter 26. The Steppic Early Natufian
• Chapter 27. The Natufian of the Azraq Basin
• Chapter 28. Chert Procurement Patterns and Exploitation Territory
• Chapter 29. A Faunal Perspective on the Relationship between the Natufian Occupations of Hayonim Cave and Hayonim Terrace
• Chapter 30. The Natufian at Raqefet Cave
• Chapter 31. Hof Shahaf
• Chapter 32. The Life History of Macrolithic Tools at Hilazon Tachtit Cave
• Chapter 33. Breaking the Mold
• Chapter 34. Ruminations on the Role of Periphery and Centre in the Natufian
• Chapter 35. The Natufian and the Younger Dryas
• Chapter 36. Scaphopod Shells in the Natufian Culture
• Chapter 37. The Natufian Chronological Scheme
• Chapter 38. Natufian Foragers and the ‘Monocot Revolution'
• Chapter 39. Lithic Technology in the Late Natufian
• Chapter 40. Variability of Lunates and Changes in Projectile Weapons Technology during the Natufian
• Chapter 41. Specialized Hunting of Gazelle in the Natufian
• Chapter 42. Commensalism