Natufian
Speech parts
1. Natufian - Noun
2. Natufian - Adjective
Meaning
Natufian (not comparable)
(archaeology, anthropology) Of, or relating to a Mesolithic-era hunter-gatherer people in the Mediterranean area around Levant, at about 13,000 to 11,000 BC.
Natufian (plural Natufians)
A member of the Natufian culture.
Examples
As with other Natufian subjects, opinions tend to either emphasize North African connections or Eurasian connections.
At another Natufian site at the cave of Hayonim, humans were found buried with two canids.
One Natufian individual was also found to belong to the N1b mtDNA haplogroup.
For example, in Cilicia the Belbaşı culture (13,000–10,000 BCE) shows Kebaran influence, while the Beldibi culture (10,000–8500 BCE) shows clear Natufian influence.
In the Near East, the laminar microliths of the Kebarian culture were superseded by the geometric microliths of the Natufian tradition a little more than 11,000 years ago.
It is argued that the cold and dry Younger Dryas lowered the carrying capacity of the area and forced the sedentary Early Natufian population into a more mobile subsistence pattern.