The Natufian Origin of Agriculture

Sub Saharan Natufians of the Niger-Congo Had No Neanderthal Genes and were the First People of sophisticated culture in the Middle East! Thousands of years before (e1b1a genetically black) Kemet Invented writing and taught the Sumerians!

Natufian culture is a Late "Epipaleolithic" (far from the regions of glaciers ie. Black) archaeological culture of the Neolithic prehistoric Levant in Western Asia, dating to around 15,000 to 11,500 years ago. Europeans evolved to have white skin, starting from around 8,000 years ago. (Ancient populations in Spain, Luxembourg and Hungary had dark skin around 8,500 years ago) The whole of North Africa was Black African until the 7th century AD. The culture was unusual in that it supported a sedentary or semi-sedentary population even before the introduction of agriculture. Most modern Europeans don't look much like those of 8000 years ago.

The Natufian communities are recognized as the forebears of the first Neolithic settlement builders in the region, which are deemed the world's earliest. There is evidence of the Natufian culture at Tell Abu Hureyra deliberately cultivating cereals, particularly rye, marking the site as the oldest known for agriculture. Additionally, the world's most ancient evidence of producing bread-like substances was discovered at Shubayqa, a site in Jordan's northeastern desert that dates back 14,400 years, predating the advent of agriculture in Southwest Asia by 4,000 years. Moreover, the earliest evidence of potential beer brewing, which dates back to around 13,000 BP, was uncovered in Raqefet Cave on Mount Carmel, although it's possible that the beer-related residues resulted from natural fermentation.

The Natufians are generally recognized for their use of wild cereals and for hunting, especially gazelles. Their era is often categorized into two phases: the Early Natufian (12,000–10,800 BC) and the Late Natufian (10,800–9,500 BC). The Late Natufian is thought to have overlapped with the Younger Dryas period (10,800 to 9,500 BC). During the Natufian period, the Levant region was rich with over a hundred types of cereals, fruits, nuts, and other consumable plant parts. In contrast to the dry and thorny terrain of today, the Levant's flora at that time was comparable to that of a woodland.