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. essential reading and an important
reference for archaeologists interested in the origins of
agriculture. Daniel E. Lieberman. Contents: O. Bar-Yosef and F.R.
Valla, The Natufian Culture - An Introduction; U. Baruch and S.
Bottema, Palynological evidence for climatic changes in the Levant
ca, 17,000-9,000 B.P.; A. Leroi-Gourhan and F. Darmon, Analyses
polliniques de stations natoufiennes au Proche-Orient; L. Copeland,
Natufian sites in Lebanon; B. Schroeder, Natufian in the Central
Beqaa Valley, Lebanon; O. Bar-Yosef, The archaeology of the
Natufian layer at Hayonim Cave; F.R. Valla, F. Le Mort and H.
Plisson, Les fouilles en cours sur la Terrasse d Hayonim; F.R.
Valla, Les Natoufiens de Mallaha et l espace; P. Edwards, Wadi
Hammeh 27: An Early Natufian site at Pella, Jordan; A. Ronen and M.
Lechevallier, The Natufian of Hatula; P.J. Crabtree, D.V. Campana,
A. Belfer-Cohen and D.E. Bar-Yosef, First results of the
excavations at Salibiya I, lower Jordan Valley; A.N. Goring-Morris,
The Harifian of the southern Levant; A. Betts, The Late
Epipaleolithic in the Black Desert, eastern Jordan; A.N. Garrard,
Natufian settlement in the Azraq Basin, eastern Jordan; B.F. Byrd,
Beidha: An Early Natufian encampment in southern Jordan; B.F. Byrd
and S.M. Colledge, Early Natufian occupation along the edge of the
southern Jordanian Steppe; A.M.T. Moore, Abu Hureyra 1 and the
antecedents of agriculture on the Middle Euphrates; M.C. Cauvin, Du
Natoufien au Levant nord? Jayroud et Mureybet (Syrie); E. Tchernov,
Biological evidence for human sedentism in Southwest Asia during
the Natufian; C. Cope, Gazelle hunting strategies in the southern
Levant; D. Helmer, Etude de la faune de la phase IA (Natoufien
final) de Tell Mureybet (Syrie), fouilles Cauvin; J. Pichon, Les
oiseaux au Natoufien, avifaune et sedentarite; S.J.M. Davis, When
and why did prehistoric people domesticate animals? Some evidence
from Israel and Cyprus; S.M. Colledge, Investigations of plant
remains preserved in Epipaleolithic sites in the Near East; A.
Sillen and J.A. Lee-Thorpe, Dietary change in the Late Natufian; A.
Belfer-Cohen, L.A. Schepartz and B. Arensburg, New biological data
for the Natufian populations in Israel; P. Smith, The dental
evidence for nutritional stress in the Natufians; D.I. Olszewski,
The lithic evidence from Abu Hureyra I, in Syria; J. Sellars, An
examination of lithics from the Wadi Judayid Site; D. Campana, Bone
implements from Hayonim Cave: Some relevant issues; D. Stordeur, Le
Natoufien et son evolution a travers les artefacts en os; R.
Unger-Hamilton, Natufian plant husbandry in the southern Levant and
comparison with that of the Neolithic Periods: The lithic
perspective; P. Anderson, Harvesting wild cereals during the
Natufian as seen from the experimental cultivation and harvest of
wild einkorn wheat and microwear analysis of stone tools; T. Noy,
Art and decoration of the Natufian at Nahal Oren; A. Belfer-Cohen,
Art items from layer B, Hayonim Cave: A case study of art in a
Natufian context; C. Marechal, Elements de parure de la fin du
Natoufien: Mallaha niveau I, Jayroud 1, Jayroud 3, Jayroud 9, Abu
Hureyra et Mureybet IA; D.S. Reese, Marine shells in the Levant:
Upper Paleolithic, Epipaleolithic, and Neolithic; D.E. Bar-Yosef,
Changes in the selection of marine shells from the Natufian to the
Neolithic; C. Perles and J. Phillips, The Natufian Conference -
Discussion"
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