Deep History of the Levant: Communities, Cities, and Imperial Crossroads
Upper Jordan Valley and Hula basin · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Eynan/Ain Mallaha and Natufian settlement contexts

Eynan / ‘Ain Mallaha

Architecture, burials, tools, fauna, plant use, and repeated rebuilding illuminate increasingly settled lifeways before full farming economies.

Epipalaeolithic settlement, burial, household, subsistence, and archaeological-classification context Approximately 12,500-9,600 BCE Architecture, burials, lithics, ground stone, fauna, plant evidence, stratigraphy, and radiocarbon dating Eynan/Ain Mallaha; a settlement research context, not a Natufian capital or ethnic center
Resumen

Geografía, contexto político y legado

Conexiones mediterráneas, fluviales, de valles, tierras altas, desiertos, peregrinación e imperios

Wetlands, springs, uplands, plants, animals, and neighboring settlements shaped repeated occupation.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

Repeated households and communal practices are visible; centralized authority or one regional polity is not demonstrated.

Contextos imperiales, religiosos, de patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna

The classification cannot establish modern identity, territory, or ancestry.

Classification Natufian archaeological contexts

The term is not a named homogeneous people.

Reviewed 2026 [S1] [S2]
Settlement repeated built occupation

Sedentism varied and cannot be reduced to a single threshold.

Reviewed 2026 [S1] [S3]
Burials selected mortuary evidence

Human remains require sensitive stewardship and do not prove descent.

Reviewed 2026 [S2] [S3]
Secuencia histórica

Una cronología breve y documentada

Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.

  1. Repeated settlement develops

    Built spaces and activity areas accumulated over several phases.

  2. Households and burials vary

    Architecture and mortuary practice changed through time.

  3. Regional lifeways transform

    Change was uneven and not a single agricultural revolution.

  4. Stratigraphy refines chronology

    Successive projects revised earlier models.

Cultura e idioma

Cultura y lengua en contexto

Idiomas mencionados en este perfil

  • No directly attested language

Familia lingüística: Not recoverable from Natufian material classification

Stone architecture

Burial practices

Ground-stone tools

Changing settlement mobility

This summary describes only what the cited public sources support.

Guía de investigación con IA

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Registro de pruebas

Fuentes utilizadas en esta página

Prefer primary and accountable public-institution sources.

  1. C1

    Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  2. C2

    Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  3. C3

    Human Origins Program

    Smithsonian Institution · National museum research resource · Current resource

  4. C4

    West Semitic Research Project

    University of Southern California · Academic inscription and manuscript project · Current resource

  5. C5

    Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library

    Israel Antiquities Authority · Public manuscript resource · Current resource

  6. C6

    Ancient Near East collections

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum research collection · Current database

  7. C7

    Petra

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  8. C8

    Umm Al-Jimāl

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  9. C9

    Emergency safeguarding of Syrian cultural heritage

    UNESCO · International heritage stewardship resource · Current resource

  10. C10

    Byblos

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  11. C11

    Tyre

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  12. C12

    American Center of Research in Jordan

    ACOR · Regional archaeological research institution · Current resource

  13. S1

    Archaeological research resources

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology · University archaeological resource · Current resource

  14. S2

    Human Origins Program

    Smithsonian Institution · National museum research resource · Current resource

  15. S3

    National Archaeology Museum

    Musée d'Archéologie nationale · National museum comparative resource · Current resource

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Revisión editorial: 6 agosto 2026