期刊名称：Bulletin du Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem
电子版ISSN：2075-5287
出版年度：2003
卷号：12
页码：126-135
出版社：Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem (CRFJ)
摘要：The archeological site of Mallaha in the Upper Jordan valley in the Galilee foothills has been the focus of numerous excavation campaigns since those in the mid 1950s, directed by Jean Perrot. This site, which dates back to the end of the Epipaleolithic, is associated with a culture known as the Natufian (10,000-8,000 BC). As of this time, the populations of the Southern Levant went through a major socio-cultural change. Until the end of the previous Geometric Kebaran culture, populations were nomadic and their economy was based on hunting and gathering. A new lifestyle began to emerge starting with the Natufian. The Natufians, while continuing to live from hunting and gathering, ceased to be nomads. Sedentism is the first step in a process that was to develop over the course of several millennia, known as neolithization. In addition to the emergence of sedentary life, this socio-economic upheaval, or “revolution” as it is termed, was to later include the development of grain collecting and the domestication of animals.
