The Natufian culture invented the village without agriculture

The Natufian is an archaeological culture of the Epipaleolithic period extending between 12550 and 9550 BC in the Near East. It is characterized by the sedentarization of hunter-gatherer populations and the creation of their first villages, even though agriculture does not yet exist. Its name comes from the Wadi en-Natuf valley, where the British archaeologist Dorothy Garrod identified the first remains in 1928.