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Dietary change in the late Natufian
natufian culture in the levant • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1991 • Pages: 399-408
By: Sillen, Andrew, Lee-Thorp, Julia A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Sillen and Lee-Thorp discuss the diets of Natufian peoples by examining strontium calcium levels, biological apatites, and conducting isotopic analysis. They conclude that neither marine foods nor Negev foods were important to the Natufian diet. There also appears to have been a decrease in cereal use at the end of the time period as cereals were in short supply due to a drier climate.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Nutrition
- Diet
- Climate
- Flora
- Fauna
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Epipaleolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Physical Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Kebaran-Natufian
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Israel and Palestinian Autonomous Areas
- NotesAdditional notes
- Andrew Sillen and Julia A. Lee-Thorp
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 408-410)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Natufian culture/Middle East--Antiquities