Breaking the Mold: Phases and Facies in the Natufian of the Mediterranean Zone

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Abstract

The Natufian of the ‘core area’ is commonly treated as a monolithic prehistoric culture, the sole representative of the Late Epipaleolithic period within the Mediterranean zone of the southern Levant (e.g.Bar-Yosef 1983; Belfer-Cohen 1991a; Henry 1989; Valla 1995).¹ This is especially evident when it is compared to the Natufian of the so-called ‘periphery’ in adjacent, more arid zones discovered and described from the 1960s onward (e.g.Henry 1973). Most syntheses of the Natufian phenomenon that focus on archaeological research within the ‘core area’ tend to emphasize elements of unity rather than highlighting the variability present within the entity, not
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNatufian Foragers in the Levant
Subtitle of host publicationTerminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia
EditorsOfer Bar-Yosef, François R. Valla
Place of PublicationAnn Arbor, MI
PublisherBerghahn Books
Pages544-561
Number of pages18
Edition1
ISBN (Print)9781879621459
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013

Publication series

NameInternational Monographs in Prehistory: Archaeological series
Volume19

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