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 www.anthropology.net/p/the-natufi...
📢🔬New #PaperAlert! on the cover of @ScienceAdvances :
Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Southwest Asia
A butterfly clay bead from #Natufian Eynan-Mallaha, colored red with ochre and marked with the fingerprints of the child (≈10 y/o) who modeled it 12,000 years ago
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#Palestinians are unquestionably the most #indigenous and in fact probably the most indigenous people anywhere outside Africa still where they were 3700+ years ago. Or even 20,000 years ago.
#Natufian #Levantine #Chaldean and other tested genetic terms are used here.
Behold Zeus taking the form of a swan to have his way with Leda, or indeed the goddess Nemesis who took the form of a goose to avoid being ravished by Zeus.
This 12 millennia old #Natufian figurine *could* depict a #SolarEclipseMyth about the Sun making love to the Moon during a #TotalSolarEclipse.
Just when you thought this story couldn't get any better, you get ... 12,000 y/o #Natufian #fingerprints! 🤩🏺
📸👇The fingerprint of the #Natufian young adult/adult female who meticulously modeled the clay figurine of a woman and a goose 12,000 years ago in Nahal Ein Gev II.
Details in @pnas.org
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A #Natufian figurine, 12,000 years old, of a woman with a goose perched on her back, both red-ochred.
But some rather stupid statements in this on 'early settled communities were already engaging in symbolic expression long before such traditions became common in the Neolithic'. Does the author […]
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 www.anthropology.net/p/clay-shado...
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 …
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Through mixing btw the #Natufian & #Anatolian, came a new #DNA component... The #Levant #Neolithic.
So basically, my ancestors (Natufian) were the first to introduce #Agriculture to #Palestine🍉🗝️🕊️, before the #Jebusites migrated to the #ArabianPeninsula.
Interesting.
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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"
Stones w/ holes or spindle whorls? - Do these perforated pebbles from 12k y/o #Natufian Nahal Ein-Gev II (Israel) anticipate wheeled rotational technologies right there in the Southern Levant's #Neolithization?
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... by T. Yashuv & L. Grosman in PLoS ONE 19(11), 2024. 🔓🏺
Découverte du plus ancien pigment organique rouge utilisé par l'humain ! @PLOSONE🌿🔴🐚🔬
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Archaeologists Find the First Red Paint Made From Plants - #Natufian #Beads #Prehistory
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Nice marketing idea, @turkhavayollari.bsky.social - but I guess, the #Natufian hunters from #Shubayqa would like to have a word. 😆😂🏺
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The History Files: Khiamian Culture
#Khiamian Culture: this succeeded the #Natufian as a sedentary culture which emerged as the farming revolution gradually took hold, alongside the highly-localised #ShepherdNeolithic culture.
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#history #historyfiles #neolithic #neolithicfarming #ancientworld
The History Files: Harifian Culture
Harifian Culture: this was a specialised regional #Palaeolithic development in the Negev Desert, its version of the #Natufian which had only ended a short while before the #Harifian appeared.
www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsMid...
#history #historyfiles #neolithic #neareast #neolithicfarming
The History Files: Shepherd Neolithic
Shepherd Culture: the #Shepherd #Neolithic style or industry of #Lebanon could be a localised expression of the #Natufian, and a filler before the #Pre-PotteryNeolithic A.
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#history #historyfiles #neareast #ancientworld #neolithicfarming #shepherdculture
The History Files: Natufian Culture
Natufian Culture: was highly important beyond its core region, with the major regional cultures of the Caucasus, while being contemporary with the Harifian and the Zarzian.
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#history #historyfiles #Natufian #neolithic #neolithicfarming #ancientworld #neareast
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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Original study:
D. Rosenberg et al., Stone 'canvas' and #Natufian #art: An incised human figure from the Natufian cemetery at #Raqefet Cave, #Israel, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 39(2), 2020 (🔐💵):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ojoa.121...
Quite a fascinating example of #Natufian art (a dancing man?) - in #mortuary context (from the #Raqefet Cave cemetery in northern #Israel):
www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-hum... via @haaretzcom
And finally, Li Liu et al. "Fermented beverage and food storage in 13,000 y-old stone mortars at #RaqefetCave, I#srael: Investigating #Natufian ritual #feasting" published in Journal of Archaeological Science 21, October 2018,...
#Beer before bread? Old debate, new evidence from the #Natufian burial site at #RaqefetCave, #Israel, @Stanford-archaeologists suggest:
phys.org/news/2018-09-evidence-hy... via @physorg_com (h/t @spoke32)
Original article by T. Richter et al. (High Resolution #AMS Dates from #Shubayqa1, northeast #Jordan Reveal Complex Origins of Late Epipalaeolithic #Natufian in the #Levant) just published in @nature Scientific Reports 7:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17096-5
New study from NE #Jordan challenges #Natufian 'core region' and suggests revisited Late #Epipaleolithic chronology.
www.heritagedaily.com/2017/12/archaeologists-r... via @HeritageDaily
Peculiar #Natufian mortuary ritual, feasting included.
"Oldest Funeral Feast" - www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160520-sec... by @melissasuzanneh for @BBCEarth
