section_path: History/Prehistory
section_name: Prehistory
paragraph_text: Prehistory
  
  The Ubeidiya prehistoric site in Israel indicates the presence of archaic humans around 1.5 million years ago. The second-oldest evidence of anatomically modern humans found outside Africa is a 200,000-year-old fossil from Misliya Cave. The Natufian culture (c. 10,000 BCE) introduced sedentism and may have been linked to Proto-Afroasiatic language. The beginning of agriculture in the region during the Neolithic Revolution is evidenced by sites such as Nahal Oren.