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Natufian Archæol.|næˈtuːfɪən|
[f. the name of Wādi an-Natuf, seventeen miles north-west of Jerusalem.]
Name coined by Prof. D. Garrod for a late Mesolithic culture the type-site of which was discovered by her at Wādi an-Natuf. Also attrib.
1932D. A. E. Garrod in Jrnl. R. Anthrop. Inst. LXII. 257 (heading) A new mesolithic industry: the Natufian of Palestine. Ibid. 261 It was abundantly clear that we were dealing with a microlithic culture that would not fit exactly into any of the pigeon-holes already existing, and I therefore decided to give it a label of its own, adopting the name Natufian from the Wady en-Natuf at Shukba. 1949[see food-gatherer (food n. 8)]. 1960K. M. Kenyon Archaeol. in Holy Land ii. 36 The Natufians of Mount Carmel, and of rock-shelters on the eastern and western slopes of the Judaean hills, lived mainly by hunting. 1960tr. S. Moscati's Face of Anc. Orient i. 13 The Natufian civilization brings two principal innovations: the harvesting of wheat and barley, and the beginnings of the domestication of animals. 1970Bray & Trump Dict. Archaeol. 159/1 The shrine at the base of the Tell at Jericho was built during the early Natufian phase and the descendants of the Natufians built the earliest Neolithic town at the site. |