The cultural process and climatic fluctuations during the early and Middle Holocene in the Near East(the Southern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia case)

The paper reports on the results of the analysis concerning spatial distributionof Southern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia sites during the Early and Middle Holocene.The identified synchronization of the population density in these two regions of the FertileCrescent demonstrates the same pattern of climatic fluctuations in the Near East duringthe Holocene.