When Humans Stopped Moving: The Birth of the First Villages

The first villages were built 12,500 years ago, 2,000 years before anyone invented farming. This film traces the Natufians of the Levant, who built stone houses and stored wild barley at Ain Mallaha and Hayonim long before domestic wheat existed. It shows how post-ice-age abundance let hunter-gatherers settle, how the Younger Dryas collapse forced tending of wild grain at Abu Hureyra, and why Jericho's wall and Göbekli Tepe reveal belief and storage kept people in place.