Natufian green stone pendants from el-Wad: Characteristics and cultural implications

Mina Evron; Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer; Naomi Porat

doi:10.2307/j.ctv8bt33h.16

Natufian green stone pendants from el-Wad: Characteristics and cultural implications

Mina Evron, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Naomi Porat

Department of Archaeology

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Beads are used as body and cloth decorations and are considered to reflect personal and/or group awareness (Dubin 2009; Bar-Yosef 1991). The earliest appearance of beads, made of sea-shells, is from about 100,000 years ago and they were discovered in Skhul Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel (Bar-Yosef Mayer 2005, Vanhaerenet al. 2006, Bar-Yosef Mayeret al. 2009) and similar finds were discovered in North Africa and South Africa (d’Erricoet al. 2009; Jerardino and Marean 2010). Ostrich egg shell beads from a site in Kenya, dated to about 40,000 years ago (Ambrose 1998), mark the onset of another type of...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Natufian Foragers in the Levant: Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia
Editors	Ofer Bar-Yosef , François R. Valla
Publisher	Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological Series
Pages	139–145
Volume	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv8bt33h.16
State	Published - 2013

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Evron, M., Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E., & Porat, N. (2013). Natufian green stone pendants from el-Wad: Characteristics and cultural implications. In O. B.-Y., & F. R. V. (Eds.), Natufian Foragers in the Levant: Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia (Vol. 19, pp. 139–145). Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological Series . https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv8bt33h.16

Evron, Mina ; Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella E. ; Porat, Naomi. / Natufian green stone pendants from el-Wad: Characteristics and cultural implications. Natufian Foragers in the Levant: Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia. editor / Ofer Bar-Yosef ; François R. Valla. Vol. 19 Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological Series , 2013. pp. 139–145

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Natufian green stone pendants from el-Wad: Characteristics and cultural implications. / Evron, Mina; Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella E.; Porat, Naomi.
Natufian Foragers in the Levant: Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia. ed. / Ofer Bar-Yosef; François R. Valla. Vol. 19 Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory, Archaeological Series , 2013. p. 139–145.

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