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natufian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English

Syllables
natu-fi-an
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, or relating to a Mesolithic-era hunter-gatherer people in the Mediterranean area around Levant, at about 13,000 to 11,000 BC.

noun

A member of the Natufian culture.

Etymology

Coined by Dorothy Garrod after Wadi an-Natuf, the location of the Shuqba cave in West Bank where these people lived, + -ian.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Natufians (plural)

Questions

What does natufian mean?
Of, or relating to a Mesolithic-era hunter-gatherer people in the Mediterranean area around Levant, at about 13,000 to 11,000 BC.
Where does natufian come from?
Coined by Dorothy Garrod after Wadi an-Natuf, the location of the Shuqba cave in West Bank where these people lived, + -ian.

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