This documentary talks about how humans transitioned from a hunter-gathering lifestyle to domesticating crops and animals in the Middle East.

Following are points from the video:

— Settlements of the Natufian peoples in the southern the Levant (what is now Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Syria) have been discovered that are up to 17 thousand years old, being the first evidence of permanent communities.

— Along with the Earth’s climate warming from the last Ice Age in 11 thousand BC, a relatively brief period called the “Younger Dryas” abruptly cooled the climate two hundred years later, which caused people in the middle East to migrate elsewhere and abandon their previous settlements in the Levant.

— The “Neolithic” or “New Stone Age” is a period of warming after the “Younger Dryas” at a time period of 9600—3300 BC, which is divided into two parts of the “Pre-Pottery Neolithic of 9600 - 6500 BC” and the “Pottery Neolithic of 6500 - 3300 BC.”

— The “Pre-Pottery Neolithic is additionally divided into two parts of “A” which is 9600-8800 BC, and “B” which is 8800 - 6500 BC.

— In part “A” of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, people in the Mid-East have been found living in settlements in a communal fashion, where they hunted, and cultivated and stored large amounts of grains.

— The discovery of the Göbekli Tepe settlement in Turkey in the early 1990's features the world’s first known temple, and it incorporates chiseled T-shaped rock pillars that weigh many tons.