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12,000-Year-Old Nafutian Female Shaman's Grave Loaded With 'Goodies"

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« Reply #15 on: May 28, 2009, 09:42:03 am »



The spread of Natufian culture.








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The Natufian culture (pronounced /nəˌtjuːfiən/) existed in the Mediterranean region of the Levant. It was a Mesolithic culture, but unusual in that it was sedentary, or semi-sedentary, before the introduction of agriculture.

The Natufian communities are possibly the ancestors of the builders of the first Neolithic settlements of the region, which may have been the earliest in the world. There is no evidence for the deliberate cultivation of cereals, but people at the time certainly made use of wild cereals. Animals hunted include the gazelles.

The culture is a successor of Kebaran culture.

Although the picture may change as more research is done, there does not seem to have been any similarly advanced culture at the time in the whole Near East.

The name "Natufian" was chosen by Dorothy Garrod who studied the Shuqba cave in Wadi an-Natuf, about halfway between Jaffa and Ramallah.
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