Hunter-gatherer-builders
70 Years of research at the Natufian hamlet of Eynan-Mallaha (upper Jordan Valley, Israel)
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Since 1955, research at Eynan-Mallaha has unraveled an exceptionally thick, well-preserved, and detailed archaeological sequence spanning from the Early to the Final Natufian. Among other important findings, the site has yielded a relatively high number of stone constructions, comprising semi-circular and circular semi-subterranean buildings, divulging a clear evolutionary trend in early building activity. Here we review the work that has been carried out in regard to Eynan-Mallaha's constructions, from the site's discovery to the latest discoveries from our renewed excavations. Archival records from earlier excavations at the site are considered here in detail for the first time using digitization tools and high-resolution data acquisition techniques. Our focus is on a series of nested buildings (Loci 148–131–51-62) occupied at different times during the Early Natufian, which is re-evaluated here in light of cumulative and more fine-grained stratigraphic data, architectural analysis from the emerging field of Building Archaeology, and GIS-aided analysis combining archival and recent datasets. We argue for the development of a strong sense of place and permanence at Eynan-Mallaha, attested by the nuanced series of continuities in and modifications to the documented constructions from one generation to another through the constantly repaired and recycled built-up space
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Geography · HAMLET (protein complex · Hunter-gatherer · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History
‘Isaac went out to the field’
The Routledge Handbook of Archaeothanatology
Bone Ornamental Elements and Decorated Objects of the Natufian from Mallaha
Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture
The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences
Evidence for domestication of the dog 12,000 years ago in the Natufian of Israel
A 12,000-year-old Shaman burial from the southern Levant (Israel)
Estrategias de modelado patrimonial en HBIM, aplicación a la lectura estratigráfica del muro de fachada del cuadrante renacentista de la catedral de Sevilla
Finding of trout (Salmo cf. trutta) in the Northern Jordan Valley (Israel) at the end of the Pleistocene
Les fouilles de Mallaha en 2000 et 2001
Le Natoufien final de Mallaha (Eynan), deuxième rapport préliminaire
Les fouilles de Ain Mallaha (Eynan) de 2003 ὰ 2005
Alice Vanetti, Archéologie du bâti, Histoire et épistémologie des origines à nos jours (France, Italie, Suisse)
The Garbage Crisis in prehistory
Regional building archaeology
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands
Ochre, Ground Stone, and Wrapping the Dead in the Late Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant
Considerations on the mechanisms of integration of the dead in the early sedentary societies of the Near East (Natufian, 15-11.6 ka cal BP)
Natufian Interactions Along the Jordan Valley
Ungulate skeletal element profiles
Sedentism, the “point of non return”, and the Natufian issue. An historical perspective
Long-term trends in Natufian subsistence
Natufian Foragers in the Levant
Seasonality of the Final Natufian occupation at Eynan/Ain Mallaha (Israel)
Identification of some wooden materials used in Bam world heritage site
L'environnement de Mallaha (Eynan) au Natoufien
L'Evolution du Natoufien. Nouvelles suggestions
Insights into Natufian Social Identity
The Beginning of the Neolithic in Southeast Anatolia
Neolithization Processes in the Levant
Remembering a sacred place - The depositional history of Hilazon Tachtit, a Natufian burial cave
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