Agriculture appeared first in the Fertile Crescent, around 12,000 years ago.
From reading in this forum, I realize that the current European population has little to do with the people living in Europe 12,000 years ago: we are a mixture of ANE, WHG and EEF. And this mixture happened relatively recently, at least with ANE.
So, my question is: is it known who these people at the Fertile Crescent were? I assume, with analogy to Europe, that those people do not exist anymore, at least in "pure" terms. But is it known who they were? Which characteristics did they have?
From reading in this forum, I realize that the current European population has little to do with the people living in Europe 12,000 years ago: we are a mixture of ANE, WHG and EEF. And this mixture happened relatively recently, at least with ANE.
So, my question is: is it known who these people at the Fertile Crescent were? I assume, with analogy to Europe, that those people do not exist anymore, at least in "pure" terms. But is it known who they were? Which characteristics did they have?