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In B or not in B: a reappraisal of the Natufian burials at Shukbah Cave, Judaea, Palestine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

M. Weinstein-Evron
M. Weinstein-Evron*
Affiliation:
Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel 31905, Israel. (evron@research.haifa.ac.il)
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Abstract

Dorothy Garrod's classic excavation of Shukbah Cave revealed a sequence of burials from the middle Palaeolithic into a period transitional between the Palaeolithic and Neolithic which she named the Natufian after the wadi in which the cave is located. Using the original field notebooks, the author re-examines the stratigraphy (Layers A–D) and proposes most of the human bone is Natufian (from Layer B) except a group burial which may in fact belong to a later layer. This research implies a redefinition of burial-types belonging to the Natufian.

Keywords

Natufiansub-divisionstratigraphyburialsPalestineLevant
Type
Research
Information
Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 295 , March 2003 , pp. 96 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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