Previous articleNext article No AccessReportsThe Epi-Palaeolithic Southern Levant and the Origins of CultivationRomana Unger-HamiltonRomana Unger-Hamilton Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 30, Number 1Feb., 1989 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/203718 Views: 10Total views on this site Citations: 48Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1988 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ResearchPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Danny Rosenberg, Rivka Chasan Between Novelty and Variability: Natufian Hunter-Gatherers ( c . 15–11.7 kyr) Proto-Agrotechnology and the Question of Morphometric Variations of the Earliest Sickles, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 87 (May 2021): 31–50.https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2021.5Juan J. 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