Harifian culture

Harifian
Geographical rangeNegev Desert
PeriodEpipalaeolithic
Dates8,800 BCE – 8,000 BCE
Preceded byNatufian culture
Followed byPre-Pottery Neolithic A
Preceded by the Pleistocene
Holocene
Epoch

ICS stages/ages (official)

Greenlandian (11.7*–8.236* ka)
Northgrippian (8.236–4.2† ka)
Meghalayan (4.2 ka–present)

Blytt–Sernander stages/ages

Preboreal (10.3†–9† ka)
Boreal (9–7.5† ka)
Atlantic (7.5–5† ka)
Subboreal (5–2.5† ka)
Subatlantic (2.5 ka–present)

*Relative to year 2000 (b2k).

†Relative to year 1950 (BP/Before "Present").

Harifian is a specialized regional cultural development of the Epipalaeolithic of the Negev Desert, in the southern part of the Levant.[1][2] It corresponds to the latest stages of the Natufian culture, and represents a culmination of the local Natufian developments.[3]

  1. ^ Goring-Morris, Nigel (1 January 1991). "The Harifian of the southern Levant". The Natufian culture in the ….
  2. ^ Bar-Yosef, Ofer; Valla, François Raymond (1991). The Natufian Culture in the Levant. International Monographs in Prehistory. p. 173. ISBN 978-1-879621-03-9.
  3. ^ Goring-Morris, Adrian Nigel (December 2022). "Ruminations on the role of periphery and centre for the Natufian". p. 571.