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  "title": "The Natufian Culture in the Levant",
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    "en": "Ofer Bar-Yosef and François R. Valla's 1991 edited volume (International Monographs in Prehistory) is the standard scholarly treatment of the Natufian culture — the late Epipalaeolithic Levantine complex (c. 13,000–9700 BCE) that immediately precedes the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and the Göbekli Tepe horizon. The Natufian is the principal archaeological context for the emergence of sedentism, intensive plant gathering, and the social conditions that produced the subsequent Neolithic transition. The volume remains the foundational comparative source for engaging the broader regional context within which Göbekli Tepe sits."
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