11 Facts About Natufian culture

Natufian culture is a Late Epipaleolithic archaeological culture of the Levant, dating to around 15, 000 to 11, 500 years ago.

The Natufian culture was unusual in that it supported a sedentary or semi-sedentary population even before the introduction of agriNatufian culture.

Some evidence suggests deliberate cultivation of cereals, specifically rye, by the Natufian culture, at Tell Abu Hureyra, the site of earliest evidence of agriculture in the world.

Dorothy Garrod coined the term Natufian culture based on her excavations at Shuqba cave near the town of Shuqba in the western Judean Mountains.

Natufian culture was discovered by British archaeologist Dorothy Garrod during her excavations of Shuqba cave in the Judaean Hills in the West Bank of the Jordan River.

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Natufian culture's discovered a layer sandwiched between the Upper Palaeolithic and Bronze Age deposits characterised by the presence of microliths.

Natufian culture's identified this with the Mesolithic, a transitional period between the Palaeolithic and the Neolithic which was well-represented in Europe but had not yet been found in the Near East.

The Levant hosts more than a hundred kinds of cereals, fruits, nuts, and other edible parts of plants, and the flora of the Levant during the Natufian culture period was not the dry, barren, and thorny landscape of today, but rather woodland.

Natufian culture developed in the same region as the earlier Kebaran industry.

Habitations of the Natufian culture were semi-subterranean, often with a dry-stone foundation.

Natufian culture had a microlithic industry centered on short blades and bladelets.