RACIALIZATION OF THE FIRST FARMERS —“The first farmers of the southern Levant

RACIALIZATION OF THE FIRST FARMERS

—“The first farmers of the southern Levant (Israel and Jordan) and Zagros Mountains (Iran) were strongly genetically differentiated, and each descended from local hunter–gatherers. By the time of the Bronze Age, these two populations and Anatolian-related farmers had mixed with each other and with the hunter–gatherers of Europe to greatly reduce genetic differentiation.”—