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    Epipalaeolithic Near East The Epipalaeolithic Near East designates the Epipalaeolithic ("Final Old Stone Age", also known as Mesolithic) in the prehistory...
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    Levant or the Near East; in Europe, Epipalaeolithic is used, though not very often, to refer to the early Mesolithic. The Epipalaeolithic has been defined...
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    in the Middle East (the Epipalaeolithic Near East) roughly 20,000 to 10,000 BP. The term is less used of areas farther east, and not at all beyond Eurasia...
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    when farming appeared in the Epipalaeolithic Near East, and later in other parts of the world. It lasted in the Near East until the transitional period...
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    Pre-Pottery Neolithic (category Archaeological cultures of the Near East)
    (10000 – 6500 BCE). It succeeds the Natufian culture of the Epipalaeolithic Near East (also called Mesolithic), as the domestication of plants and animals...
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    Natufian culture (category Archaeological cultures of the Near East)
    various ancient and modern groups from the Near East, Africa and Europe. The Late Pleistocene Epipalaeolithic Natufian sample was described as problematic...
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    Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (category Archaeological cultures of the Near East)
    Yarmukian culture. PPNA succeeds the Natufian culture of the Epipalaeolithic Near East. PPNA archaeological sites are much larger than those of the preceding...
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    Kebaran culture (category Archaeological cultures of the Near East)
    The Kebaran culture, also known as the 'Early Near East Epipalaeolithic', is an archaeological culture of the Eastern Mediterranean dating to c. 23,000...
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  • Zarzian culture (category Archaeological cultures of the Near East)
    the area appears to have been quite sparsely populated during the Epipalaeolithic. Faunal remains from the Zarzian indicate that the temporary form of...
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    The name originates from the Danish archeological site Maglemose, situated near Gørlev and Høng on western Zealand, southwest of lake Tissø. Here the first...
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