TY - BOOK AU - Bar-Yosef,Ofer AU - Ackermann,Oren AU - Akazawa,Takeru AU - Al-Maqdissi,Michel AU - Ashkenazi,Shoshana AU - Ashkenazy,Hila AU - Bachrach,Noga AU - Bar-Oz,Guy AU - Bar-Yosef Mayer,Daniella E. AU - Bar-Yosef,Ofer AU - Belfer-Cohen,Anna AU - Bocquentin,Fanny AU - Braemer,Franck AU - Bretzke,Knut AU - Bridault,Anne AU - Cabellos,Teresa AU - Carmen Rodríguez Rodríguez,Amelia del AU - Colledge,Sue AU - Conard,Nicholas J. AU - Deckers,Katleen AU - Delage,Christophe AU - Dubreuil,Laure AU - Edwards,Phillip C. AU - Edwards,Yvonne AU - Garrard,Andrew AU - González Urquijo,Jesús Emilio AU - Goring-Morris,A.Nigel AU - Gourichon,Lionel AU - Grosman,Leore AU - Haïdar-Boustani,Maya AU - Henry,Donald O. AU - Hershkovitz,Israel AU - Hillgruber,Kurt Felix AU - José Ibáñez,Juan AU - Kandel,Andrew W. AU - Kanjo,Yousef AU - Kaufman,Daniel AU - Khalaily,Hamoudi AU - Klein,Noa AU - Kurzawska,Aldona AU - Le Dosseur,Gaëlle AU - Lengyel,György AU - Maher,Lisa A. AU - Major,Janine AU - March,Ramiro J. AU - Marder,Ofer AU - Martin,Louise AU - Maréchal,Claudine AU - Masri,Mohamed AU - Mienis,Henk K. AU - Muhesen,Sultan AU - Munro,Natalie D. AU - Nadel,Dani AU - Napierala,Hannes AU - Neeley,Michael AU - Nishiaki,Yoshihiro AU - Nuzhnyy,Dmitri AU - Olszewski,Deborah I. AU - Plisson,Hugues AU - Porat,Naomi AU - Rabinovich,Rivka AU - Richter,Tobias AU - Riehl,Simone AU - Rosen,Arlene M. AU - Rosenberg,Danny AU - Samuelian,Nicolas AU - Simmons,Tal AU - Smithline,Howard AU - Stahlschmidt,Mareike AU - Stanin,Zvonkica AU - Tanno,Ken-ichi AU - Teira,Luis C. AU - Terradas,Xavier AU - Valentin,Boris AU - Valla,Francois R. AU - Valla,François R. AU - Webb,John AU - Weinstein-Evron,Mina AU - Weissbrod,Lior AU - Willcox,George AU - Yaroshevich,Alla AU - Yazbeck,Corine AU - Yeshurun,Reuven AU - Zapata,Lydia TI - Natufian Foragers in the Levant: Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia T2 - International Monographs in Prehistory: Archaeological Series SN - 9781879621466 AV - GN774.3.N38 N28 2013eb U1 - 306.3/640956 23 PY - 2013///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Middle East KW - Congresses KW - Hunting and gathering societies KW - Natufian culture KW - Pleistocene-Holocene boundary KW - Social archaeology KW - Social change KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology KW - bisacsh KW - Eastern Mediterranean KW - Epipalaeolithic KW - Prehistoric Culture KW - Terminal Pleistocene KW - Western Asia N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Contributors --; Preface The Natufian Culture in the Levant: Twenty Years Later --; Acknowledgements --; Northern Levant --; Natufian Lifeways in the Eastern Foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains --; The Natufian of Moghr el-Ahwal in the Qadisha Valley, Northern Lebanon --; The Natufian of Southwestern Syria Sites in the Damascus Province --; The Natufian Occupations of Qarassa 3 (Sweida, Southern Syria) --; The Early Natufian Site of Jeftelik (Homs Gap, Syria) --; Fish in the Desert? The Younger Dryas and its Influence on the Paleoenvironment at Baaz Rockshelter, Syria --; Preliminary Results from Analyses of Charred Plant Remains from a Burnt Natufian Building at Dederiyeh Cave in Northwest Syria --; Southern Levant --; El-Wad --; Spatial Organization of Natufian el-Wad through Time: Combining the Results of Past and Present Excavations --; The Last Natufian Inhabitants of el-Wad Terrace --; Domestic Refuse Maintenance in the Natufian: Faunal Evidence from el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel --; Natufian Green Stone Pendants from el-Wad: Characteristics and Cultural Implications --; Eynan --; The Final Natufian Structure 215-228 at Mallaha (Eynan), Israel: an Attempt at Spatial Analysis --; A Study of two Natufian Residential Complexes: Structures 200 and 203 at Eynan (Ain Mallaha), Israel --; Graves in Context: Field Anthropology and the Investigation of Interstratified Floors and Burials --; Obsidian in Natufian Context: The Case of Eynan (Ain Mallaha), Israel --; Flint Knapping and its Objectives in the Early Natufian: the Example of Eynan- Ain Mallaha (Israel) --; Searching for the Functions of Fire Structures in Eynan (Mallaha) and their Formation Processes: a Geochemical Approach --; Avifauna of the Final Natufian of Eynan --; Bone Ornamental Elements and Decorated Objects of the Natufian from Mallaha --; Reconstruction of the Habitats in the Ecosystem of the Final Natufian Site of Ain Mallaha (Eynan) --; Southern Levant - other sites --; Wadi Hammeh 27: an Open-air ‘Base-camp’ on the Fringe of the Natufian ‘Homeland’ --; Art Items from Wadi Hammeh 27 --; The Final Epipaleolithic / PPNA site of Huzuq Musa (Jordan Valley) --; Natufian Settlement in the Wadi al-Qusayr, West-Central Jordan --; The Steppic Early Natufian: Investigations in the Wadi al-Hasa, Jordan --; The Natufian of the Azraq Basin: An Appraisal --; Chert Procurement Patterns and Exploitation Territory: Case Study from Late Natufian Hayonim Terrace (Western Galilee, Israel) --; A Faunal Perspective on the Relationship between the Natufian Occupations of Hayonim Cave and Hayonim Terrace --; The Natufian at Raqefet Cave --; Hof Shahaf: A New Natufian Site on the Shore of Lake Kinneret --; The Life History of Macrolithic Tools at Hilazon Tachtit Cave --; General Reviews, Climate and Interpretations --; Breaking the Mold: Phases and Facies in the Natufian of the Mediterranean Zone --; Ruminations on the Role of Periphery and Centre in the Natufian --; The Natufian and the Younger Dryas --; Scaphopod Shells in the Natufian Culture --; The Natufian Chronological Scheme – New Insights and their Implications --; Natufian Foragers and the ‘Monocot Revolution’: A Phytolith Perspective --; Lithic Technology in the Late Natufian – Technological Differences between ‘Core-area’ and ‘Periphery’ --; Variability of Lunates and Changes in Projectile Weapons Technology during the Natufian --; Specialized Hunting of Gazelle in the Natufian: Cultural Cause or Climatic Effect? --; Commensalism: was it Truly a Natufian Phenomenon? Recent Cntributions from Ethnoarchaeology and Ecology; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789201574?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789201574 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789201574/original ER -