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The Natufian culture (/ n ə ˈ t uː f i ə n / [1] nə-TOO-fee-ən) is a Late Epipaleolithic archaeological culture of the Neolithic prehistoric [2] Levant in Western Asia, dating to around 15,000 to 11,500 years ago. [3]
A 2020 study by Gad, Hawass, et al. analysed mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal haplogroups from Tutankhamun's family members of the 18th Dynasty, using comprehensive control procedures to ensure quality results. The study found that the Y-chromosome haplogroup of the family was R1b. [4] [33] Haplogroup R1b is carried by modern Egyptians. [4]
Articles related to the Natufian culture (15,000 to 11,500 years ago), a Late Epipaleolithic archaeological culture of the Levant.The culture was unusual in that it supported a sedentary or semi-sedentary population even before the introduction of agriculture.
The genetic history of the Middle East is the subject of research within the fields of human population genomics, archaeogenetics and Middle Eastern studies.Researchers use Y-DNA, mtDNA, and other autosomal DNA tests to identify the genetic history of ancient and modern populations of Egypt, Persia, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Arabia, the Levant, and other areas.
Nahal Ein Gav II is a prehistoric archaeological site in northern Israel, where a village of the late Natufian culture was discovered. The site is located on the northern terrace of Ein-Gev stream, about two kilometers east of the Sea of Galilee, on the southern slopes of the Golan Heights.
The Sub-Saharan influences detected in the Natufian samples with the migration of E1b1b lineages from Northeast Africa to the Levant and then into Europe. [77] According to an ancient DNA analyses on Natufian skeletal remains from present-day northern Israel, the Natufians in fact shared no evident genetic affinity to sub-Saharan Africans. [25]
Lazaridis et al. (2022) stated that ancient Levantines (i.e. inhabitants of Jordan, Israel, Syria, Lebanon) and their descendants exhibit a decrease of ~8% local Neolithic ancestry, which is mostly Natufian ancestry, every millennium, starting from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the Medieval period.
The first Agricultural societies in the Middle East are generally thought to have emerged from the Natufian Culture, which existed in Palestine from 12,000 BCE-10,000 BCE. An important migration from North-West Africa occurred by the Ibero-Maurisians from Morocco across the Sinai appears to have occurred before the formation of the Natufian.