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Abstract
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.
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.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natufian Foragers in the Levant | i | ||
| Copyright | ii | ||
| Table of Contents | iii | ||
| List of Contributors | vii | ||
| Preface | xv | ||
| Acknowledgements | xix | ||
| Chapter 1. Natufian Lifeways in the Eastern Foothills of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains | 1 | ||
| Chapter 2. The Natufian of Moghr el-Ahwal in the Qadisha Valley, Northern Lebanon | 17 | ||
| Chapter 3. The Natufian of Southwestern Syria Sites in the Damascus Province | 28 | ||
| Chapter 4. The Natufian Occupations of Qarassa 3 | 45 | ||
| Chapter 5. The Natufian Occupations of Qarassa 3 (Sweida, Southern Syria) | 45 | ||
| Chapter 6. The Early Natufian Site of Jeftelik (Homs Gap, Syria) | 61 | ||
| Chapter 7. Fish in the Desert? | 73 | ||
| Chapter 8. Preliminary Results from Analyses of Charred Plant Remains from a Burnt Natufian Building at Dederiyeh Cave in Northwest Syria | 83 | ||
| Chapter 9. Spatial Organization of Natufian el-Wad through Time | 88 | ||
| Chapter 10. The Last Natufian Inhabitants of el-Wad Terrace | 107 | ||
| Chapter 11. Domestic Refuse Maintenance in the Natufian | 118 | ||
| Chapter 12. Natufian Green Stone Pendants from el-Wad | 139 | ||
| Chapter 13. The Final Natufian Structure 215-228 at Mallaha (Eynan), Israel | 146 | ||
| Chapter 14. A Study of two Natufian Residential Complexes | 172 | ||
| Chapter 15. Graves in Context | 185 | ||
| Chapter 16. Obsidian in Natufian Context | 193 | ||
| Chapter 17. Flint Knapping and its Objectives in the Early Natufian | 203 | ||
| Chapter 18. Searching for the Functions of Fire Structures in Eynan (Mallaha) and their Formation Processes | 227 | ||
| Chapter 19. Avifauna of the Final Natufian of Eynan | 284 | ||
| Chapter 20. Bone Ornamental Elements and Decorated Objects of the Natufian from Mallaha | 293 | ||
| Chapter 21. Reconstruction of the Habitats in the Ecosystem of the Final Natufian Site of Ain Mallaha (Eynan) | 312 | ||
| Chapter 22. Wadi Hammeh 27 | 319 | ||
| Chapter 23. Art Items from Wadi Hammeh 27 | 349 | ||
| Chapter 24. The Final Epipaleolithic / PPNA site of Huzuq Musa (Jordan Valley) | 382 | ||
| Chapter 25. Natufian Settlement in the Wadi al-Qusayr, West-Central Jordan | 397 | ||
| Chapter 26. The Steppic Early Natufian | 412 | ||
| Chapter 27. The Natufian of the Azraq Basin | 429 | ||
| Chapter 28. Chert Procurement Patterns and Exploitation Territory | 449 | ||
| Chapter 29. A Faunal Perspective on the Relationship between the Natufian Occupations of Hayonim Cave and Hayonim Terrace | 463 | ||
| Chapter 30. The Natufian at Raqefet Cave | 478 | ||
| Chapter 31. Hof Shahaf | 505 | ||
| Chapter 32. The Life History of Macrolithic Tools at Hilazon Tachtit Cave | 527 | ||
| Chapter 33. Breaking the Mold | 544 | ||
| Chapter 34. Ruminations on the Role of Periphery and Centre in the Natufian | 562 | ||
| Chapter 35. The Natufian and the Younger Dryas | 584 | ||
| Chapter 36. Scaphopod Shells in the Natufian Culture | 611 | ||
| Chapter 37. The Natufian Chronological Scheme | 622 | ||
| Chapter 38. Natufian Foragers and the ‘Monocot Revolution' | 638 | ||
| Chapter 39. Lithic Technology in the Late Natufian | 649 | ||
| Chapter 40. Variability of Lunates and Changes in Projectile Weapons Technology during the Natufian | 671 | ||
| Chapter 41. Specialized Hunting of Gazelle in the Natufian | 685 | ||
| Chapter 42. Commensalism | 699 |