This massive volume contains papers from a recent symposium on the late Pleistocene Natufian culture, which is one of the most important precursors of the Neolithic Revolution in the Levant. Detailed studies of environmental changes, subsistence strategies, tool making and using technologies, demographic issues, and symbolic behavior provide an updated knowledge of this culture.

This massive volume contains papers from a recent symposium on the late Pleistocene Natufian culture, which is one of the most important precursors of the Neolithic Revolution in the Levant. Detailed studies of environmental changes, subsistence strategies, tool making and using technologies, demographic issues, and symbolic behavior provide an updated knowledge of this culture.