Natufian Foragers in the Levant: Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia

Ofer Bar-Yosef; François R. Valla

Published by Berghahn Books 2013

Natufian Foragers in the Levant

Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia

Ofer Bar-Yosef and François R. Valla

Volume 19 in the series International Monographs in Prehistory: Archaeological Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789201574

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Ofer Bar-Yosef is the George Grant MacCurdy and Janet G. B. MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Harvard University.

François R. Valla is a researcher in archaeology at Maison Archéologie & Ethnologie, Archéologie er Sciences de L'antiquité, Paris.

Ofer Bar-Yosef is the George Grant MacCurdy and Janet G. B. MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Harvard University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface The Natufian Culture in the Levant: Twenty Years Later Ofer Bar-Yosef and François R. Valla Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Northern Levant
Natufian Lifeways in the Eastern Foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains Nicholas J. Conard, Knut Bretzke, Katleen Deckers, Andrew W. Kandel, Mohamed Masri, Hannes Napierala, Simone Riehl and Mareike Stahlschmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Natufian of Moghr el-Ahwal in the Qadisha Valley, Northern Lebanon Andrew Garrard and Corine Yazbeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
The Natufian of Southwestern Syria Sites in the Damascus Province Kurt Felix Hillgruber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
The Natufian Occupations of Qarassa 3 (Sweida, Southern Syria) Xavier Terradas, Juan José Ibáñez, Franck Braemer, Lionel Gourichon and Luis C. Teira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
The Early Natufian Site of Jeftelik (Homs Gap, Syria) Amelia del Carmen Rodríguez Rodríguez, Maya Haïdar-Boustani, Jesús Emilio González Urquijo, Juan José Ibáñez, Michel Al-Maqdissi, Xavier Terradas and Lydia Zapata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Fish in the Desert? The Younger Dryas and its Influence on the Paleoenvironment at Baaz Rockshelter, Syria Hannes Napierala Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Preliminary Results from Analyses of Charred Plant Remains from a Burnt Natufian Building at Dederiyeh Cave in Northwest Syria Ken-ichi Tanno, George Willcox, Sultan Muhesen, Yoshihiro Nishiaki, Yousef Kanjo and Takeru Akazawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Southern Levant
El-Wad
Spatial Organization of Natufian el-Wad through Time: Combining the Results of Past and Present Excavations Mina Weinstein-Evron, Daniel Kaufman and Reuven Yeshurun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
The Last Natufian Inhabitants of el-Wad Terrace Noga Bachrach, Israel Hershkovitz, Daniel Kaufman and Mina Weinstein-Evron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Domestic Refuse Maintenance in the Natufian: Faunal Evidence from el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel Reuven Yeshurun, Guy Bar-Oz, Daniel Kaufman and Mina Weinstein-Evron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Natufian Green Stone Pendants from el-Wad: Characteristics and Cultural Implications Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Naomi Porat and Mina Weinstein-Evron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Eynan
The Final Natufian Structure 215-228 at Mallaha (Eynan), Israel: an Attempt at Spatial Analysis François R. Valla, Hamoudi Khalaily, Nicolas Samuelian, Anne Bridault, Rivka Rabinovich, Tal Simmons, Gaëlle Le Dosseur and Shoshana Ashkenazi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
A Study of two Natufian Residential Complexes: Structures 200 and 203 at Eynan (Ain Mallaha), Israel Nicolas Samuelian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Graves in Context: Field Anthropology and the Investigation of Interstratified Floors and Burials Fanny Bocquentin, Teresa Cabellos and Nicolas Samuelian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Obsidian in Natufian Context: The Case of Eynan (Ain Mallaha), Israel Hamoudi Khalaily and Francois R. Valla Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Flint Knapping and its Objectives in the Early Natufian: the Example of Eynan- Ain Mallaha (Israel) Boris Valentin, François R. Valla, Hugues Plisson and Fanny Bocquentin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Searching for the Functions of Fire Structures in Eynan (Mallaha) and their Formation Processes: a Geochemical Approach Ramiro J. March Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Avifauna of the Final Natufian of Eynan Tal Simmons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
Bone Ornamental Elements and Decorated Objects of the Natufian from Mallaha Gaëlle Le Dosseur and Claudine Maréchal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Reconstruction of the Habitats in the Ecosystem of the Final Natufian Site of Ain Mallaha (Eynan) Shoshana Ashkenazi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
Southern Levant - other sites
Wadi Hammeh 27: an Open-air ‘Base-camp’ on the Fringe of the Natufian ‘Homeland’ Phillip C. Edwards, Fanny Bocquentin, Sue Colledge, Yvonne Edwards, Gaëlle Le Dosseur, Louise Martin, Zvonkica Stanin and John Webb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Art Items from Wadi Hammeh 27 Janine Major Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
The Final Epipaleolithic / PPNA site of Huzuq Musa (Jordan Valley) Dani Nadel and Danny Rosenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	382
Natufian Settlement in the Wadi al-Qusayr, West-Central Jordan Michael Neeley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
The Steppic Early Natufian: Investigations in the Wadi al-Hasa, Jordan Deborah I. Olszewski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	412
The Natufian of the Azraq Basin: An Appraisal Tobias Richter and Lisa A. Maher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
Chert Procurement Patterns and Exploitation Territory: Case Study from Late Natufian Hayonim Terrace (Western Galilee, Israel) Christophe Delage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
A Faunal Perspective on the Relationship between the Natufian Occupations of Hayonim Cave and Hayonim Terrace Natalie D. Munro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
The Natufian at Raqefet Cave György Lengyel, Dani Nadel and Fanny Bocquentin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	478
Hof Shahaf: A New Natufian Site on the Shore of Lake Kinneret Ofer Marder, Reuven Yeshurun, Howard Smithline, Oren Ackermann, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Anna Belfer-Cohen, Leore Grosman, Israel Hershkovitz, Noa Klein and Lior Weissbrod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
The Life History of Macrolithic Tools at Hilazon Tachtit Cave Laure Dubreuil and Leore Grosman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	527
General Reviews, Climate and Interpretations
Breaking the Mold: Phases and Facies in the Natufian of the Mediterranean Zone Anna Belfer-Cohen and A. Nigel Goring-Morris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	544
Ruminations on the Role of Periphery and Centre in the Natufian A. Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	562
The Natufian and the Younger Dryas Donald O. Henry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	584
Scaphopod Shells in the Natufian Culture Aldona Kurzawska, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer and Henk K. Mienis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	611
The Natufian Chronological Scheme – New Insights and their Implications Leore Grosman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	622
Natufian Foragers and the ‘Monocot Revolution’: A Phytolith Perspective Arlene M. Rosen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	638
Lithic Technology in the Late Natufian – Technological Differences between ‘Core-area’ and ‘Periphery’ Hila Ashkenazy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	649
Variability of Lunates and Changes in Projectile Weapons Technology during the Natufian Alla Yaroshevich, Daniel Kaufman, Dmitri Nuzhnyy, Ofer Bar-Yosef and Mina Weinstein-Evron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	671
Specialized Hunting of Gazelle in the Natufian: Cultural Cause or Climatic Effect? Guy Bar-Oz, Reuven Yeshurun and Mina Weinstein-Evron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	685
Commensalism: was it Truly a Natufian Phenomenon? Recent Cntributions from Ethnoarchaeology and Ecology Lior Weissbrod, Daniel Kaufman, Dani Nadel, Reuven Yeshurun and Mina Weinstein-Evron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	699

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 717
Keywords: Western Asia; Eastern Mediterranean; Terminal Pleistocene; Prehistoric Culture; Epipalaeolithic

eBook

Published: December 1, 2013
ISBN: 9781789201574