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The houses of the Natufien are semi-subterranean, often with a dry-stone foundation. The superstructure was probably made of brushwood. No traces of mudbricks have been found that became common in the following Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, abbreviated PPN A. The round houses have a diameter between 3-6 m, they contain a central round or subrectangular fireplace. In Ain Mallaha traces of postholes have been identified. Villages can cover over 1,000 square meters. Smaller settlements have been interpreted as less permanent abodes (camps). Traces of rebuilding in almost all excavated settlements seem to point to a frequent relocation. Settlements have been estimated to house 100-150 people. There are almost no indications of storage facilities.
A sedentary life may have been made possible by abundant resources due to a favourable climate at the time, with a culture living from hunting, fishing and gathering, including the use of wild cereals. Tools were available for making use of cereals: flint-bladed sickles for harvesting, and mortars, grinding stones, and storage pits.
The Natufien has a microlithic industry, made on short blades and bladelets. The microburinA microburin is the residual product of the creation of a microlith during flint tool manufacture in the European Mesolithic. The process involves notching a flint blade and snapping it in two. The shorter portion is termed the microburin and unlike the m-technique was used. Geometric microliths include lunates, trapezes and triangles. There are backed blades as well. A special type of retouch (Helwan) is characteristic for the early Natufien. In the late Natufien, the Harif-point, a typical arrowheadArrowhead the point of an Arrow. Arrowhead, California A place name derived from an arrowhead-shaped geologic formation in the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California. made from a regular blade, became common in the NegevThe Negev Standard Hebrew Negev / Nagev Tiberian Hebrew Nee / Ne Arabic an-Naqab is the desert region of southern Israel. In Biblical Hebrew Negev means south. Geographically, the over 13,000km² Negev forms an inverted triangle whose western side is conti. Some scholars use it to define a separate culture, the Harifian .
Sickle blade s made on blades appear for the first time. The characteristic sickle-gloss shows that they have been used to cut the silica-rich stems of cereals and form an indirect proof for incipient agriculture. Shaft straighteners made of ground stoneIn archaeology, ground stone is a category of stone tool formed by the grinding of a coarse-grained tool stone, either purposefully or incidentally. Ground stone tools are usually made of basalt, rhyolite, granite, or other macrocrystalline igneous stones indicate the practice of archeryArchery is the practice of using a bow to shoot arrows. Archery has historically been used in hunting and combat, and has become a precision sport. Archery technique In general, the bow is held in the hand opposite the dominant eye. Right eye dominant peo. There are heavy ground-stone bowl mortars as well.