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	PreHistoric Har Harif in the Negev Desert of Southern Israel
		The transhumant Harifian occupation was disrupted by the dessication of the area leading to the virtual abandonment of the Negev for approximately 1000 years.....
		The lithic assembly was knapped on different raw material from that of the Harifian enabling a seperation of the two elements.....
		The Harifian and Neolithic 1 in Palestine appear to have been contemporaneous and the distribution of sites of each group is mutually exclusive.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Har_Harif.html (873 words)

	Natufian culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the late Natufien, the Harif-point, a typical arrowhead made from a regular blade, became common in the Negev.
		Some scholars use it to define a separate culture, the Harifian.
		Sickle blades made on blades appear for the first time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natufian_culture (1189 words)

	Origins
		The reactions of foraging societies to the climatic hazards varied according to the social history of each group.
		For example, one hunting and gathering society in the Israeli Negev (known as the Harifian) responded by improving hunting techniques with a sophisticated new arrow point--but this approach failed after several hundred years, leading to abandonment of their homeland.
		That applies to prehistoric times as well." He is perhaps referring to the ill-fated Negev Harifians and their improved spear points--though there are other examples.
	www.harvardmagazine.com /on-line/09016.html (3336 words)

	MarksA_3_1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Abu Salem in the Central Negev, Israel, is the type site for the newly recognized Harifian Industry.
		Abu Salem is a sizable village with substantial architecture dated by C-14 to the last quarter of the 9th millennium B.C. The associated lithic industry is not directly related to the Natufian or the Pre-Pottery of Palestine, but the inferred adaptive patterns parallel those of the Natufian.
		Presently known Harifian site distribution indicates that it is restricted to the semi-arid zone of the southern Levant and, in spite of having the technological prerequisites, the Harifian failed to become truly Neolithic.
	www.bu.edu /jfa/Abstracts/M/MarksA_3_1.html (135 words)

	PreHistoric Abu Salem in the Negev Desert of Israel
		Abu Salem was occupied in both the EpiPaleolithic Harifian Culture and also the PPNB.....
		: Abu Salem in the Central Negev of [southern] Israel is the type site for the newly recognized Harifian Industry.
		The associated lithic industry is not directly related to the Natufian or the Pre-Pottery of Palestine but the inferred adaptive patterns parallel those of the Natufian.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Abu_Salem.html (244 words)

	Areas in Context
		Contacts are indicated between Upper Egypt and the A-Group, with jars and wavy-handled pottery, copper tools, palettes, beads and stone vessels from Upper Egypt found extensively in Nubian A-Group contexts.
		There are no Neolithic sites with affinities to the Sinai known to date, but in the northern Sinai there are two sites which show affinities with the Harifian and Pre Pottery Neolithic B and the Late Bronze Age.
		Throughout this document comparisons with Upper Egypt are made, in order to place the Lower Egyptian sites in an appropriate context.
	www.faiyum.com /html/areas_in_context.html (3997 words)

	GORING-MORRIS, ADRIAN NIGEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BP) occupation, while the Harifian (= local Final Natufian, ca.
		Maaleh Ramon East and West - Late Epipalaeolithic Harifian sites [with Steve Rosen];
		TAHAL Central Negev Survey (Har Qeren, Upper Nahal Besor, Nahal Zipporim, Sde Zin) - Lower Palaeolithic through Neolithic sites [with Steve Rosen].
	archaeology.huji.ac.il /oldsite/goring.htm (1865 words)

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