Also natufiense. It is said of the culture back to the kebaran at the beginning of the Mesolithic, approximately between 12. 000 and 8. 500 BCE, which was developed in the Middle East in a strip next to the Mediterranean between Mount Sinai and the upper course, half of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Anatolian plateau. The term was coined by the British archaeologist Dorothy Garrod in the first half of the 20th century to work at the site of Wadi-in-Natuf in the West Bank. The natufienses were hunter-gatherers and had managed to tame the dog.
