Natufian Culture: A Brief Bibliography

Albert, Rosa M., Ofer Bar-Yosef, Liliane Meignen, and Steve Weiner 2003 Quantitative Phytolith Study of Hearths from the Natufian and Middle Palaeolithic Levels of Hayonim Cave (Galilee, Israel). Journal of Archaeological Science 30:461–480.

Bar-Yosef, Ofer 1998 Introduction: Some comments on the history of research. Review of Archaeology 19(2):1-5.

Bar-Yosef, Ofer 1998 The Natufian culture in the Levant, threshold to the origins of agriculture. Evolutionary Anthropology 6(5):159-177. Free download

Bar-Yosef, Ofer and F. Valla 1990 The Natufian culture and the origin of the Neolithic in the Levant. Current Anthropology 31(4):433-436.

Bocquentin, Fanny and Ofer Bar-Yosef 2004 Early Natufian remains: evidence for physical conflict from Mt. Carmel, Israel. Journal of Human Evolution 47:19-23.

Byrd, Brian F. 1994 Public and private, domestic and corporate: The emergence of the southwest Asian village. American Antiquity 59(4):639-666.

Byrd, Brian F. and Christopher M. Monahan 1995 Death, mortuary ritual, and Natufian social structure. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14(3):251-287.

Hardy-Smith, Tania and Phillip C. Edwards 2004 . Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 23(3):253-289.

Kuijt, Ian 1996 Negotiating equality through ritual: A consideration of Late Natufian and prepottery Neolithic A Period mortuary practices. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 15:313-336.

McCorriston, Joy 1994 Acorn eating and agricultural origins: California ethnographies as analogies for the ancient Near East. Antiquity 68:97-107.

Munro, Natalie D. 2004 Zooarchaeological Measures of Hunting Pressure and Occupation Intensity in the Natufian: Implications for Agricultural Origins with CA Comment. Current Anthropology 45(S4):S5-S34. Free download