When Did Humans Start Settling Down?

Photo caption: Natufian artworks, such as this figurine, became common around 15,000 years ago. Few artworks predating that period have been found in the Levant. Photo credit: Daniel Rolider. Article by Matti Friedman. Smithsonian Magazine – July/August 2023.

Twelve thousand years ago, long before the beginning of recorded history, a group of perhaps 200 people lived in a small village by a stream flowing into the Sea of Galilee, in what today is northern Israel. The villagers hunted gazelle and hares, fished for carp, built stone houses, and buried their dead in a cemetery next to their homes. […]

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