Natufian

Meaning

1. Of, or relating to a Mesolithic-era hunter-gatherer people in the Mediterranean area around Levant, at about 13,000 to 11,000 BC.
2. A member of the Natufian culture.

Etymology / 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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