Editing Natufian culture (section)

==Dating==
[[File:Climate and Post-Glacial expansion in the Near East.jpg|thumb|upright=2|The Natufian appeared at the time of the [[Bølling–Allerød warming]], before temperatures dropped drastically again during the [[Younger Dryas]]. Temperatures would rise again at the end of the Younger Dryas, and with the onset of the [[Holocene]] and the [[Neolithic Revolution]]. Climate and Post-Glacial expansion in the Near East, based on the analysis of [[Greenland ice cores]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zalloua |first1=Pierre A. |last2=Matisoo-Smith |first2=Elizabeth |title=Mapping Post-Glacial expansions: The Peopling of Southwest Asia |journal=Scientific Reports |date=6 January 2017 |volume=7 |page=40338 |doi=10.1038/srep40338 |pmid=28059138 |language=en |issn=2045-2322|pmc=5216412 |bibcode=2017NatSR...740338P }}</ref>]]
{{Mesolithic}}
{{Paleolithic}}

[[Radiocarbon dating]] places the Natufian culture at an epoch from the terminal [[Pleistocene]] to the very beginning of the [[Holocene]], a time period between 12,500 and 9,500 [[Anno Domini|BC]].<ref name=Munro2003/>

The period is commonly split into two subperiods: Early Natufian (12,000–10,800 BC) and Late Natufian (10,800–9,500 BC). The Late Natufian most likely occurred in tandem with the [[Younger Dryas]] (10,800 to 9,500 BC). The [[Levant]] hosts more than a hundred kinds of cereals, fruits, nuts, and other edible parts of plants, and the flora of the Levant during the Natufian period was not the dry, barren, and thorny landscape of today, but rather [[woodland]].<ref name="Bar-Yosef 159"/>