Natufian culture
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The Natufian culture is an archaeological culture of the late Epipalaeolithic Near East in West Asia from 15,000–11,500 Before Present. The culture was unusual in that it supported a sedentary or semi
Dorothy Garrod (centre) discovered the Natufian culture in 1928
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.
Mortars from Natufian Culture, grinding stones from Neolithic pre-pottery phase (Dagon Museum)
The Ain Sakhri lovers, from Ain Sakhri, near Bethleem (British Museum: 1958,1007.1 )
The genetic history of North Africa encompasses the genetic history of the people of North Africa. The most important source of gene flow to North Africa from the Neolithic Era onwards was from Wester
Fortes-Lima, Cesar et al. 2022, Red: West African, Purple: East African, Green: Middle Eastern, Blue: European. North Africans show high ancestry proportions from West Asia and Europe.