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Other Archaeological Sites / The Neolithic of the Levant (500 Page Book Online) McDonald Ancient Near East Book Auction Ad Infinitum PreHistoric Har Harif Excerpts and Definitions and Addendums
Pre-Historic Sites Near Har Harif (1972)
The Harif Point: A New Tool Type From the Terminal
More extensive excavations were conducted by
Negev Highlands Project: Two Seasons of Excavations of Natufian - Harifian These excavations indicated occupation of the area from at least the Middle Paleolithic through the Late Neolithic periods. Geologically speaking this area contained relatively abundant plant and animal food resources during the Late and Terminal Pleistocene and so provided an attractive focus for local hunter-gathere bands ..... Pre-History and Archaeology Glossary Upper Paleolithic Period: Several exposed surface sites were discovered on top of the plateau adjacent to Mount Harif including K9A - G11 and Har Horesha I. The lithic (stone) assemblages all display flake technologies with scrapers - burins and retouched pieces comprising the main tool categories. The assemblages have thus been assigned to the Levantine Aurignacian complex ..... EpiPaleolithic Period: A series of sites (G9-K9-G14-K5-K6-K7-G3) at the top of Mount Harif and the adjacent plateaus formed the basis for the techno-typological definition of the Ramonian entity - the same as that formerly termed Negev Kebaran. The Ramonian is a microlithic industry featuring high frequencies of distinctive straight or concave backed and distal oblique truncations achieved using the microburin technique - the Ramon point. Other tool groups included scrapers and notches. The origins of the Ramonian as a whole are believed to lie in the more lowland Sinai-based Mushabian complex. It thus appears likely that the Ramonian can be dated to 13000-12000 BP ..... Late Natufian Culture: The huge in situ Natufian complex of Rosh Horesha and Saflulim is located in an adjacent shallow valley. It is the southernmost Natufian base camp known in the Negev. Carbon-14 dates from charcoal are: Rosh Horesha (10880 BP +/- 280 SMU-10) and Saflulim (11150 BP +/- 100 OxA-2869 and 10930 BP +/-130 OxA-2136). Rosh Horesha alone extends for at least 4000 to 5000 square metres. Saflulim - some 200 metres away and on the other side of the wadi - is less extensive. Many bedrock mortars in the vicinity indicate that plant resources - probably pistachio nuts but perhaps also barley - were major staples in addition to meat from hunted prey including gazelle - ibex and some onager as well as wild sheep. The associated lithic assemblage was abundant and fully compatible with other Late Natufian assemblages in the Negev .....
PrePottery Neolithic B: Abu Salem was subsequently reoccupied as a campsite with a few small structures in the PPNB. The lithic assembly was knapped on different raw material from that of the Harifian enabling a seperation of the two elements ..... Selected Excerpt on the Neolithic Harifian Industry Chapter 3: Neolithic 1 Har Harif (Pages 113-117) ..... Another group of sites with a post-Mesolithic 2 industry has recently been found in the Negev and northern Sinai. The type-site is Abu Salem (G12) on the Har Harif plateau .....
Abu Salem: Type-Site of the Harifian Industry of the Southern Levant The Harifian and Neolithic 1 in Palestine appear to have been contemporaneous and the distribution of sites of each group is mutually exclusive. They both developed from Mesolithic 2 in their respective areas and had many cultural features in common. This suggests that they are both variations of the same cultural complex - that is the first post-Mesolithic 2 culture in the southern Levant. The similarities in the material remains of the two groups would also indicate that their inhabitants were living in much the same way. We may thus include Harifian sites within Neolithic 1 of the Levant .....
The Neolithic of the Levant (1978) "Harif" is mentioned in 12 Sections of the Neolithic of the Levant .....
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