Editing Natufian culture (section)

===Other finds===
There was a rich [[bone industry]], including [[harpoon]]s and [[fish hook]]s. Stone and bone were worked into pendants and other ornaments. There are a few human figurines made of [[limestone]] (El-Wad, Ain Mallaha, Ain Sakhri), but the favorite subject of representative art seems to have been animals. Ostrich-shell containers have been found in the [[Negev]].

In 2018, the world's oldest brewery was found, with the residue of 13,000-year-old beer, in a prehistoric cave near [[Haifa]] in Israel when researchers were looking for clues into what plant foods the Natufian people were eating. This is 8,000 years earlier than experts previously thought beer was invented.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45534133|title='World's oldest brewery' found in a cave in Israel, say researchers|work=BBC|date=15 September 2018}}</ref>

A study published in 2019 shows an advanced knowledge of lime plaster production at a Natufian cemetery in Nahal Ein Gev II site in the Upper Jordan Valley dated to 12 thousand (calibrated) years before present [k cal BP]. Production of plaster of this quality was previously thought to have been achieved some 2,000 years later.<ref>{{cite journal|title='Lime plaster covering burials 12,000 years ago presents a technological leap forward at the end of the Palaeolithic|journal=Cambridge University Press|date=30 September 2019|doi=10.1017/ehs.2019.9|volume=1 | last1 = Friesem | first1 = David E. | last2 = Abadi | first2 = Itay | last3 = Shaham | first3 = Dana | last4 = Grosman | first4 = Leore|pages=e9 |pmid=37588409 |pmc=10427327 | doi-access = free }}</ref>