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hunter gatherers in general were mobile small groups, but there are some exceptions
the caves in and near Mount Carmel in the Levant have been populated by humanoids for over 600.000 years because of good hunting grounds and lots of nuts and fruits to be collected
first there was homo Palestinensis who was expelled by Neanderthal some 200.000 years ago, and Neanderthal was expelled by homo sapiens sapiens some 50.000 years ago
also Moravia in Europe was a good place before the ice age, when northern Europe was a cold steppe ; Moravia was a corridor between the northern European plain (northern Germany & Poland) and the Carpathian basin ; every spring and every automn herds of animals would pass through this corridor between their winter and summer grazing fields ; there were permanent HG settlements in Moravia ; it was allready densely inhabited by Neanderthals ; 48000 years ago the Bohunicians came to this place ; it is the oldest European culture that is assigned to homo sapiens sapiens, they settled here before the Balkans were settled
as to the European mesolithic, there were several good fishing and hunting territories :
the best territory was Doggerland, which unfortunaltely for the HG drowned
then there were the Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic coast, with the Sado valley in Portugal, the Swifterbant and Ertebölle people, the southern Swedish lakes (Motola)
and the Danube gorges, where large sturgeon fish came to spawn every spring
Those are good examples of high value static food sources (that Moravia one is particularly interesting) that might force HGs to become sedentary or semi-sedentary even if they didn't want to simply because the food source was too good (or maybe even started the process by separating out from a population of HGs those who could stay still and those that couldn't).
It's interesting if you list the possible sources of such static food sources
- wetlands
- coastal fishing
etc
as some of them - like wetlands - might produce a lot of food leading to a sedentary HG lifestyle but they wouldn't necessarily be suitable for evolving farming cos wetlands aren't the right environment for sheep/goats and maybe not right for wild cereals either.
So it seems to me farming/herding would most likely start in regions which had both a really good static food source and also had sheep/goats nearby and maybe wild cereals as well - hence why i'm interested in places that had a lot of fruit trees which also overlapped with wild goats.