Staying in one place rather than roaming, even while still living primarily as hunter-gatherers.
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Sedentary
Staying in one place rather than roaming, even while still living primarily as hunter-gatherers.
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Jiang identifies the Natufian culture as sedentary hunter-gatherers in the Levant who stayed in one place without yet being farmers.
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"...the Natufian culture are three things. First of all, they were sedentary. Sedentary basically means that they basically stayed in one place, okay? Remember,..."
"...winter, which meant they did not move, okay? So, they were sedentary. That's the first thing. Second thing is that they had domesticated crops...."
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