Natufian

Meanings

Adjective

Of, or relating to a Mesolithic-era hunter-gatherer people in the Mediterranean area around Levant, at about 13,000 to 11,000 BC.

Noun

Someone of, or pertaining to, the Natufian culture.

Origin

Coined by Dorothy Garrod after Wadi an-Natuf, the location of the Shuqba cave in West Bank where these people lived, -ian.

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