Ice Age Villagers of the Levant: sedentism and social connections in the Natufian period

该项目将通过调查公元前12500年纳图夫狩猎采集者定居的约旦Wadi Hammeh 27来推进早期定居理论。该遗址被认为是农耕时代之前的定居村庄，但定居主义的考古指标仍然模糊不清。该项目将通过将新技术应用于现场的人类骨骼遗骸来确定居住职业的长度和频率，从而解决这个问题。Wadi Hammeh 27也体现了纳图夫社会互动分散的趋势。他们将通过追踪Wadi Hammeh 27和小型季节性纳图夫遗址之间的人工制品和材料交换来进行调查，因为这些联系是关于农业和定居生活出现的理论的基础。

This project will advance theories on early sedentism by investigating Wadi Hammeh 27 in Jordan, settled by Natufian hunter-gatherers at 12,500 BC. This site is claimed as a pre-agrarian, sedentary village but archaeological indicators of sedentism remain ambiguous. This project will resolve the issue by applying new technologies to human skeletal remains from the site to establish the length and frequency of residential occupations. Wadi Hammeh 27 also exemplifies trends towards the dispersal of Natufian social interactions. They will be investigated by tracing the exchange of artefacts and materials between Wadi Hammeh 27 and small, seasonal Natufian sites because these links underlie theories about the advent of agriculture and settled life.