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Natufian meaning
Of, or relating to a Mesolithic-era hunter-gatherer people in the Mediterranean area around Levant, at about 13,000 to 11,000 BC.
Using Natufian
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, or relating to a Mesolithic-era hunter-gatherer people in the Mediterranean area around Levant, at about 13,000 to 11,000 BC.
- In the example corpus, natufian often appears in combinations such as: the natufian.
Context around Natufian
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Natufian
- In this selection, "natufian" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, using, early, late, period, technology and subjects stand out and add context to how "natufian" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as the natufian period and at another natufian site at. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "natufian" sits close to words such as aami, abada and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with natufian
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Subsistence The Natufian people lived by hunting and gathering. (9 words)
One Natufian individual was also found to belong to the N1b mtDNA haplogroup. (13 words)
Sickle blades also appear for the first time in the Natufian lithic industry. (13 words)
The African Archaeological Review; Chapter 5, pg 29-38 Ofer Bar-Yosef, The Natufian culture and the Early Neolithic: Social and economic trends in Southwestern Asia, chapter 10 in Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew (eds. (35 words)
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. (30 words)
In the Near East, the laminar microliths of the Kebarian culture were superseded by the geometric microliths of the Natufian tradition a little more than 11,000 years ago. (29 words)
Example sentences (13)
The latest analysis shows structures with right angles, previously associated with later architectural phases, from as early as the Natufian period.
Study author and University College London graduate student Lara Gonzalez Carretero, using Natufian technology, has been experimentally re-creating the flour and dough.
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.
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.
One Natufian individual was also found to belong to the N1b mtDNA haplogroup.
Overall, these late Natufian specimens are Mediterranean in physical type, but possibly also have a minor Negroid element.
Sickle blades also appear for the first time in the Natufian lithic industry.
Subsistence The Natufian people lived by hunting and gathering.
The African Archaeological Review; Chapter 5, pg 29-38 Ofer Bar-Yosef, The Natufian culture and the Early Neolithic: Social and economic trends in Southwestern Asia, chapter 10 in Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew (eds.
The earlier Natufian skulls are dolichocephalic, with a large, thick-walled and robust structure and a wide, straight and rounded brow.
The habitations of the Natufian are semi-subterranean, often with a dry-stone foundation.
Common combinations with natufian
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