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1. What does it mean to be a Hunter- gatherer?

2. What effect did the Younger Dryas have on the Natufians?

3. What plant did they discover and why is that important?

4. Who was Dorothy Garrot? What did she discover?

5. Describe the unusual tool she discovered. What did that indicate?

6. How were they organized? What was their lifestyle?

7. What is the importance of Wadi Hammat? Describe it.

8. How much food could they gather and why was it important?

9. How was grain unique? Why is that important?

10. What did this new crop do to their lifestyle? Describe their new way of living.

11. What do the middens tell us of Natufian life? Give examples.

12. What can uniformitarianism tell us about Natufian social structure?

13. Describe a Natufian burial.

14. What happened to the Natufian way of life and why?

15. What new way of life came about? What sort of tools did the Natufian create?

16. What challenges did they face? Name at least one major impact the Natufians had on the environment.