A hint about the possible homeland of the Basal Eurasians comes from the Natufians, hunter-gatherers who lived after around fourteen thousand years ago in the southwestern parts of the Near East.14 They were the first people known to have lived in permanent dwellings—they did not migrate from place to place searching for food despite being hunter-gatherers. They built large stone structures and actively managed local wild plants before their successors became full-fledged farmers. Their skulls as well as the stone tools they made are similar in shape to those of North Africans who lived around
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