#natufian

[tinyuglyworld]

Natufian scuplture from from around 11,000, credited as the first artwork portraying sex

Found in Jericho, West Bank, Palestine

[tyrannoninja]

Natufian Shaman in 3D

Another quick Nomad Sculpt project I hashed out in my spare time today. This one depicts a female Natufian shaman from the Syrio-Palestinian region of the Middle East 15,000 to 11,500 years ago. Again, I used one of Nomad Sculpt's built-in presets as a base for the head, modified its features to match that of ancient Natufian skulls, and then added the hair, jewelry, and texture work myself.

Since the Natufians may represent the forerunners of Semitic-speaking peoples in the Middle East, I gave my shaman a forehead tattoo in the form of a hamsa hand symbol associated with pre-Islamic Semitic religions.

[rootsoflife]

Map of distribution of Natufian sites found in modern Israel and Palestine. The Natufian Culture (15 000 - 11 500 BCE) was a prehistoric culture with early signs of sedentary lifestyle and has proof of the oldest developments of domestication of plants and dogs, burial of the death, beer-brewing and baking, preceding the rest of West Asia by 4 000 years.

[visions-of-our-past]

Neolithic Proto-city of Çatalhöyük c. 5500BCE by Ishtar W.

[historyfiles]

Khiamian Culture: this succeeded the Natufian as a sedentary culture which emerged as the farming revolution was gradually taking hold, alongside the highly-localised Shepherd Neolithic culture.

Early Near Eastern Cultures - Khiamian

Coverage of the early modern human archaeological cultures of the Near East

[kemetic-dreams]

What is the exact origin of haplogroup E1b1b? And why do some claim it to be Eurasian in when E is an African haplogroup?

This is a very simple question, I am surprised why a few people here struggle to give accurate answers.The Origin of Haplogroup E1b1b is known by Academia to be located within the East African corridor of Horn of Africa, with the highest concentration in Somalia. Haplogroup E1b1b (formerly known as E3b) represents the last major direct migration from Africa into Europe. It is believed to have first appeared in the Horn of Africa approximately 26,000 years ago and dispersed to North Africa and the Near East during the late Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. E-M78 and E-Z827 originated respectively at 20,000 years and 24,000 years. E1b1b lineages are closely linked to the diffusion of Afroasiatic languages.Prior to Mesolithic period of the Levant region, carriers of Haplogroup E from Africa settled in that region and were responsible for the Natufian Technocomplex practice later on.

[archaeologicalnews]

Archaeologists discover bread that predates agriculture by 4,000 years

At an archaeological site in northeastern Jordan, researchers have discovered the charred remains of a flatbread baked by hunter-gatherers 14,400 years ago. It is the oldest direct evidence of bread found to date, predating the advent of agriculture by at least 4,000 years. The findings suggest that bread production based on wild cereals may have encouraged hunter-gatherers to cultivate cereals, and thus contributed to the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic period.

A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen, University College London and University of Cambridge have analysed charred food remains from a 14,400-year-old Natufian hunter-gatherer site—a site known as Shubayqa 1 located in the Black Desert in northeastern Jordan. The results, which are published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide the earliest empirical evidence for the production of bread:

"The presence of hundreds of charred food remains in the fireplaces from Shubayqa 1 is an exceptional find, and it has given us the chance to characterize 14,000-year-old food practices. Read more.

[perkwunos]

Bar-Yosef, Ofer (1998), “The Natufian Culture in the Levant, Threshold to the Origins of Agriculture”, Evolutionary Anthropology, 6 (5): 159–177