Mesolithic - 10th Millennium BC, Natufian Culture, 9th Millennium BC, 8th Millennium BC, Epipaleolithic, Cramond (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: 10th millennium BC, Natufian culture, 9th millennium BC, 8th millennium BC, Epipaleolithic, Cramond, Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin, Lepenski Vir, Nubia / Nile boat, Star Carr, Howieson's Poort Shelter, Capsian culture, Border Cave, Aq Kupruk, Star Carr house, Balangoda Man, Saharan rock art, Azilian, Franchthi Cave, Belba, Howick house, Cemetery 117, Cuevas de la Arana en Bicorp, Iberomaurusian, Shigir Idol, Friesack, Wilton culture, El Khiam, Asturian culture, Magosian. Excerpt: The Natufian culture ( ) was a Mesolithic culture that existed from 12,500 to 9,500 BC in the Levant, a region in the Eastern Mediterranean. It was 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 some evidence for the deliberate cultivation of cereals, specifically rye, by the Natufian culture, at the Tell Abu Hureyra site, the site for earliest evidence of agriculture in the world. Generally, though, Natufians made use of wild cereals. Animals hunted include gazelles. The term "Natufian" was coined by Dorothy Garrod who studied the Shuqba cave in Wadi an-Natuf, Israel, about halfway between Tel Aviv and Ramallah. Radiocarbon dating places this culture from the terminal Pleistocene to the very beginning of the Holocene, from 12,500 to 9,500 BC. The period is commonly split into two subperiods: Early Natufian (12,500-10,800 BC) and Late Natufian (10,800-9500 BC). The Late Natufian most likely occurred in tandem with the Younger Dryas (10,800 to 9500 BC). In the Levant, there are more than a hundred kinds of cereals, fruits, nuts and other edible parts of plants, and the flora of the Levant during the Natufian p...