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Kebara Cave Map of Israel showing important sites that were occupied by the Kebarian culture (clickable map) The Kebaran or Kebarian culture was an archaeological culture in the eastern Mediterranean area (c. 18,000 to 12,500 BC), named after its type site, Kebara Cave south of Haifa .1The Kebaran were a highly mobile nomadic population, composed of hunters and gatherers in the Levant and Sinai areas who utilized microlithic tools.2The Kebaran is the last Upper Paleolithic phase of the Levant ( Syria , Jordan , Lebanon , Israel , Palestine ). The Kebarans were characterized by small, geometric microliths , and were thought to lack the specialized grinders and pounders found in later Near Eastern cultures. The Kebaran is preceded by the Athlitian phase of the Antelian and followed by the proto-agrarian Natufian culture of the Epipalaeolithic . The Kebaran is also characterised by the earliest collecting of wild cereals, known due to the uncovering of grain grinding tools. It was the first step towards the Neolithic Revolution . The Kebaran people are believed to have practiced dispersal to upland environments in the summer, and aggregation in caves and rockshelters near lowland lakes in the winter. This diversity of environments may be the reason for the variety of tools found in their toolkits. Situated in the Terminal Pleistocene , the Kebaran is classified as an Epipalaeolithic society. They are generally thought to have been ancestral to the later Natufian culture that occupied much of the same range.3
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Kebarans were the first anatomically modern humans to live in the eastern Mediterranean area (c. 18,000 to 10,000 BCE). They were a highly mobile nomadic people of hunters and gatherers in the Levant and Sinai areas who utilized microlithic tools. v t e
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The Kebaran was an archaeological culture in the eastern Mediterranean area (c. 18,000 to 10,000 BC), named after the type site, Kebara Cave south of Haifa .The Kebaran were a highly mobile nomadic population, composed of hunters and gatherers in the Levant and Sinai areas who utilized microlithic tools.The Kebarans were characterized by small, geometric microliths , and were thought to lack the specialized grinders and pounders found in later Near Eastern cultures.The Kebaran people were believed to practice dispersal to upland environments in the summer, and aggregation in caves and rockshelters near lowland lakes in the winter.This diversity of environments may be the reason for the variety of tools found in the toolkits.Being situated in the Terminal Pleistocene , the Kebaran is classified as an Epipalaeolithic society.They are generally thought to have been ancestral to the later Natufian culture that occupied much of the same range.
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The Kebaran corresponds to the period of progressive warming at the end of the Pleistocene , which followed the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).Climate and Post-Glacial expansion in the Near East, based on the analysis of Greenland ice cores .The Kebaran or Kebarian culture , also known as the Early Near East Epipalaeolithic , was an archaeological culture in the eastern Mediterranean area (c. 18,000 to 12,500 BP), named after its type site, Kebara Cave south of Haifa . The Kebaran were a highly mobile nomadic population, composed of hunters and gatherers in the Levant and Sinai areas who used microlithic tools.
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Archaeological culture The Kebaran corresponds to the period of progressive warming at the end of the Pleistocene , which followed the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Climate and Post-Glacial expansion in the Near East, based on the analysis of Greenland ice cores . The Kebaran culture , also known as the 'Early Near East Epipalaeolithic ', was an archaeological culture in the Eastern Mediterranean area (c. 23,000 to 15,000 BP ), named after its type site, Kebara Cave south of Haifa . The Kebaran were a highly mobile nomadic population, composed of hunters and gatherers in the Levant and Sinai areas who used microlithic tools.
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Archaeological culture in the Eastern Mediterranean The Kebaran corresponds to the period of progressive warming at the end of the Pleistocene , which followed the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Climate and Post-Glacial expansion in the Near East, based on the analysis of Greenland ice cores . The Kebaran culture , also known as the 'Early Near East Epipalaeolithic ', is an archaeological culture of the Eastern Mediterranean dating to c. 23,000 to 15,000 Before Present (BP).Its type site is Kebara Cave , south of Haifa . The Kebaran was produced by a highly mobile nomadic population, composed of hunters and gatherers in the Levant and Sinai areas who used microlithic tools.
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first anatomically modern humans to live in the eastern mediterranean area
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archaeological culture in the eastern mediterranean area
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