#natufian — Public Fediverse posts
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Natufian hunter-gatherers in Israel were making clay beads 15,000 years ago — and fingerprint analysis shows children were among the makers. The earliest clay ornamental tradition outside Europe. #Natufian #Archaeology #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-natufians-were-making-clay-beads
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A tiny 12,000-year-old clay figurine from Nahal Ein Gev II captures a rare human-animal encounter. This Natufian sculpture marks a turning point in symbolic expression just before the Neolithic. #Archaeology #Natufian #HumanOrigins #Prehistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/clay-shadows-and-the-first-stories
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No way this whole #Neolithic research stuff will ever get boring. Just look at this fantastic little clay #figurine from Nahal Ein Gev II (modern Israel), conveying a 12,000 years old #natufian story …
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-woman-goose-year-glimpse-prehistoric.html via @physorg
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No way this whole #Neolithic research stuff will ever get boring. Just look at this fantastic little clay #figurine from Nahal Ein Gev II (modern Israel), conveying a 12,000 years old #Natufian story … 🏺 phys.org/news/2025-11...
The woman and the goose: A 12,... -
Advanced Stone Age architecture in the Near East: new study rewrites archaeological history
Traditional theories about the origins of building in the Near East have been overturned by a landmark study, which shows that advanced building techniques and diverse architectural forms emerged much earlier than previously thought—dating back to the Natufian period (15,000–8,500 years ago)...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/12/advanced-stone-age-architecture-in-near-east/
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@toricht.bsky.social Discussing unusual child burials from 🏺 Late Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture (15-11.6k BP) Archaeological Science Day. The majority of the individuals that are represented are perinates and infants buried below stone pavement #Archaeology #Natufian #Levant"
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And round and round it goes ...
Stones with holes or spindle whorls? - Do these perforated pebbles from 12,000 y/o #Natufian Nahal Ein-Gev II (Israel) anticipate wheeled rotational technologies right there in the #Neolithization of the Southern Levant?
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0312007 by Talia Yashuv & Leore Grosman in PLoS ONE 19(11), 2024. 🔓
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Nice marketing idea, #TurkishAirlines - but I guess, the #Natufian hunters from #Shubayqa would like to have a word. 😆😂
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Which adds nicely to the few other rather similar #ShamanBurials known, like e.g. the #Natufian one from #HilazonTachtit in a small cave in northern Israel, about the same age:
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Aus Tierknochen fertigen die Menschen einer Steinzeitkultur kleine Blasinstrumente. Experimente mit Kopien zeigen, die Flöten aus Israel eignen sich nicht nur, um Musik zu machen.#Vogel #Knochen #Greifvogel #Falke #Israel #Flöte #Blasinstrumente #Levante #Natufien #Natufian #Steinzeit #Neolithikum #Lockpfeife #Jäger #Sammler #Sesshaft #Pfeife #Musikinstrument #Kultur
12 000 Jahre alte Flöten, die Vogelrufe imitieren -
As @[email protected] also emphasised in this little thread - and brilliantly implemented in her #infographic on #Natufian club-rush #FoodProcessing in #Jordan:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X22003406 https://twitter.com/kjkillackey/status/1600880037338796035