c. 10000 BC–c. 9500 BC
Natufian settlements and pre-agricultural sedentism
Población, migración y ciudades · Sedentarismo · Asentamientos permanentes · Cazadores-recolectores
Southern Levantine communities, including Ain Mallaha, built stone dwellings and repeatedly buried people in the same place before fully developed agriculture. Evidence for wild-cereal storage documents unusual territorial fixation among still hunter-gatherer populations; it does not establish a single or universal transition to sedentary life.
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- 2026-09-23
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