Old Stone AgeEconomy & Trade Natufian villages c. 12,500 BCEMajor Hunter-gatherers in the Levant settle in permanent villages and harvest wild cereals. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentbritannica.comNatufian culture (Britannica) ↗Editor's pickBookSteven MithenAfter the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC ↗Editor's pickBookOfer Bar-Yosef and François R. Valla (eds.)The Natufian Culture in the Levant ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeNatufian culture first villages ↗Editor's pick