The remains of a couple of nearly 20,000-year-old huts, excavated in a Jordanian desert basin, add to evidence that hunter-gatherers built long-term dwellings 10,000 years before farming villages debuted in the Middle East.
HUT TWO Remains of a pair of almost 20,000-year-old huts, indicated here by dotted lines, support an emerging scenario in which Middle Eastern hunter-gatherers built long-term dwellings 10,000 years before the appearance of farming villages.
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