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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
Aperçu

Géographie, contexte politique et héritage

Connexions méditerranéennes, fluviales, de vallées, hauts plateaux, déserts, pèlerinage e empires

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

Organisation politique et échelle communautaire

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

Contextes impériales, religieuxs, de patrimoine vivant et réception moderne

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]
Séquence historique

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Ces repères servent d'orientation et ne constituent pas une histoire complète.

  1. Repeated settlement develops

    Built spaces and activity areas accumulated over several phases.

    [S1] [S2]

  2. Households and burials vary

    Architecture and mortuary practice changed through time.

    [S1] [S3]

  3. Regional lifeways transform

    Change was uneven and not a single agricultural revolution.

    [S2] [S3]

  4. Stratigraphy refines chronology

    Successive projects revised earlier models.

    [S1] [S2]
Culture et langue

Culture et langue en contexte

Langues mentionnées dans ce profil

  • No directly attested language

Famille linguistique: 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.

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    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

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    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

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    Human Origins Program

    Smithsonian Institution · National museum research resource · Current resource

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    Israel Antiquities Authority · Public manuscript resource · Current resource

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    Ancient Near East collections

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

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    Petra

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

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    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

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    Emergency safeguarding of Syrian cultural heritage

    UNESCO · International heritage stewardship resource · Current resource

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    Byblos

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

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    Tyre

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

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    American Center of Research in Jordan

    ACOR · Regional archaeological research institution · Current resource

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    Archaeological research resources

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

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    Human Origins Program

    Smithsonian Institution · National museum research resource · Current resource

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    National Archaeology Museum

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

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