JBinnacle6d ago
The Ain Sakhri lovers. Natufian Age (~11,000 years old). British Museum, London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, Great Britain 🇬🇧. 13th October 2023.

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Anthropology.netMar 19
Natufian hunter-gatherers in Israel were making clay beads 15,000 years ago — and fingerprint analysis shows children were among the makers. The earliest clay ornamental tradition outside Europe. #Natufian #Archaeology #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-natufians-were-making-clay-beads
The Natufians Were Making Clay Beads 15,000 Years Ago — and Children Were Helping

A new study identifies the earliest clay ornamental tradition outside Europe, hidden for decades in bags of ignored sediment.

Anthropology.net
Radical AnthropologyNov 18

A #Natufian figurine, 12,000 years old, of a woman with a goose perched on her back, both red-ochred.

But some rather stupid statements in this on 'early settled communities were already engaging in symbolic expression long before such traditions became common in the Neolithic'. Does the author not know Palaeolithic communities all over the world were?!

#archaeology #ritual

https://www.discovermagazine.com/a-12-000-year-old-figurine-shows-the-earliest-human-animal-interaction-ever-found-48267

A 12,000-Year-Old Figurine Shows the Earliest Human–Animal Interaction Ever Found

Learn how archaeologists discovered a woman-and-goose carving that predates the Neolithic and offers new clues to ancient symbolism.

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Anthropology.netNov 18
A tiny 12,000-year-old clay figurine from Nahal Ein Gev II captures a rare human-animal encounter. This Natufian sculpture marks a turning point in symbolic expression just before the Neolithic. #Archaeology #Natufian #HumanOrigins #Prehistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/clay-shadows-and-the-first-stories
Clay, Shadows, and the First Stories We Told: A 12,000-Year-Old Woman and Her Goose

A tiny figurine from the Late Natufian period reshapes our understanding of creativity, ritual, and the symbolic imagination on the cusp of the Neolithic.

Anthropology.net
Jens NotroffNov 17

No way this whole #Neolithic research stuff will ever get boring. Just look at this fantastic little clay #figurine from Nahal Ein Gev II (modern Israel), conveying a 12,000 years old #natufian story …

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-woman-goose-year-glimpse-prehistoric.html via @physorg

The woman and the goose: A 12,000-year-old glimpse into prehistoric belief

A 12,000-year-old clay figurine unearthed in northern Israel, depicting a woman and a goose, is the earliest known human-animal interaction figurine. Found at the Late Natufian site of Nahal Ein Gev II, the piece predates the Neolithic and signals a turning point in artistic and spiritual expression. Combining naturalism, light manipulation, and symbolic imagination, it reveals how early communities used art to explore the relationship between humans and the natural world.

Phys.org
Jens NotroffNov 17
No way this whole #Neolithic research stuff will ever get boring. Just look at this fantastic little clay #figurine from Nahal Ein Gev II (modern Israel), conveying a 12,000 years old #Natufian story … 🏺 phys.org/news/2025-11...

The woman and the goose: A 12,...
The woman and the goose: A 12,000-year-old glimpse into prehistoric belief

A 12,000-year-old clay figurine unearthed in northern Israel, depicting a woman and a goose, is the earliest known human-animal interaction figurine. Found at the Late Natufian site of Nahal Ein Gev II, the piece predates the Neolithic and signals a turning point in artistic and spiritual expression. Combining naturalism, light manipulation, and symbolic imagination, it reveals how early communities used art to explore the relationship between humans and the natural world.

Phys.org
Archaeology News Jan 8, 2025

Advanced Stone Age architecture in the Near East: new study rewrites archaeological history

Traditional theories about the origins of building in the Near East have been overturned by a landmark study, which shows that advanced building techniques and diverse architectural forms emerged much earlier than previously thought—dating back to the Natufian period (15,000–8,500 years ago)...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/12/advanced-stone-age-architecture-in-near-east/

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Advanced Stone Age architecture in the Near East: new study rewrites archaeological history

A study reveals advanced building techniques and diverse architecture emerged as early as the Natufian period (15,000–8,500 years ago).

Archaeology News Online Magazine
Matthew CollinsDec 10, 2024
@toricht.bsky.social Discussing unusual child burials from 🏺 Late Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture (15-11.6k BP) Archaeological Science Day. The majority of the individuals that are represented are perinates and infants buried below stone pavement #Archaeology #Natufian #Levant"
Jens NotroffNov 15, 2024

And round and round it goes ...

Stones with holes or spindle whorls? - Do these perforated pebbles from 12,000 y/o #Natufian Nahal Ein-Gev II (Israel) anticipate wheeled rotational technologies right there in the #Neolithization of the Southern Levant?

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0312007 by Talia Yashuv & Leore Grosman in PLoS ONE 19(11), 2024. 🔓

12,000-year-old spindle whorls and the innovation of wheeled rotational technologies

‘The wheel and axle’ revolutionized human technological history by transforming linear to rotary motion and causing parts of devices to move. While its ancient origins are commonly associated with the appearance of carts during the Bronze Age, we focus on much earlier wheel-shaped find–an exceptional assemblage of over a hundred perforated pebbles from the 12,000-year-old Natufian village of Nahal Ein-Gev II, Israel. We analyze the assemblage using 3D methodologies, incorporating novel study applications to both the pebbles and their perforations and explore the functional implications. We conclude that these items could have served as spindle whorls to spin fibres. In a cumulative evolutionary trend, they manifest early phases of the development of rotational technologies by laying the mechanical principle of the wheel and axle. All in all, it reflects on the technological innovations that played an important part in the Neolithization processes of the Southern Levant.

Jens NotroffOct 18, 2024

Nice marketing idea, #TurkishAirlines - but I guess, the #Natufian hunters from #Shubayqa would like to have a word. 😆😂

https://youtu.be/R_uz0iwdlF8

The Oldest Bread From Taş Tepeler - Turkish Airlines

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