Fig 1.
Location of NEG II in the Southern Levant and other sites mentioned in the text.
Fig 2.
Plan of the site and the excavated areas.
Fig 3.
Area A: (A) plan and (B) section.
Fig 4.
Area B: (A) plan and (B) section.
Table 1.
14C ages are reported in conventional radiocarbon years (before present = 1950) in accordance with international convention [13].
All calculated 14C ages have been corrected for fractionation so that they are equivalent with the standard 13C value of -25‰ (wood). Following Reimer et al. (2013)[14]calibrated ages in calendar years were obtained from the calibration tables in OxCal v. 4.2 [15–17]. Laboratory number, field ID, type, species, pre-treatment efficiency (Eff%), carbon percent (C %), radiocarbon age and calibrated ranges in year BP for the ±1 standard deviation and ±2 standard deviation are provided for each sample.
Fig 5.
Probability distribution of the calibrated radiocarbon date ranges of the NEG II samples.
Fig 6.
Rounded storage pit.
Fig 7.
Building 3.
Fig 8.
Building 4 –(A) view from the south and (B) from the west.
Fig 9.
Building 5 –view from the south.
Fig 10.
Homo 2.
Fig 11.
Homo 4—located at the base of the multi-burial grave.
Table 2.
Debitage counts.
Fig 12.
NEG tools: 1–3: cores; 4–5 scrapers; 6–7: burins; 8–20: perforators; 21–29: sickle blades; 30: backed blade; 31: notched; 32: varia; 33: truncated; 34–35:lunates; 36–39:backed bladelets.
Table 3.
Frequencies of the tool categories.
Table 4.
NISP of taxa represented at NEG II.
Fig 13.
Relative abundance indices including broad taxonomic groups, ungulates and small game taxa.
Fig 14.
Survivorship curve of gazelles from NEG II based on the proportion of fused first and second phalanx (6.5 mos), distal tibia (9 mos), tuber calcis of calcaneum (12 mos), distal metapodial (16 mos), distal radius (18 mos) [35,36].
Fig 15.
Special Items: 1: Perforated Piece; 2–5: Decorated objects; 6: Green Stone Spacers; 7: Shell Bead; 8–10: Disc Beads; 10, 12–14: Disc Beads Pre-forms.
(2–5 photographed by Gabi Laron; 1, 6–14: photographed by Ella Klein).
Table 5.
A general breakdown of tool categories of lithic assemblages from Late/Final Natufian sites in the Jordan Valley.
Sources: Salibiya, Eynan and Fazael [61], Huruq Musa [48], Gilgal II [24].