The region is one of the regions where agriculture was independently discovered, and from the Middle East it was spread, during the Neolithic, to different regions of the world such as Europe, the Indus Valley and Eastern Africa.- Neolithic (Wikipedia)
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος néos ’new’ and λίθος líthos ‘stone’) is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts of the world. This “Neolithic package” included the introduction of farming, domestication of animals, and change from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to one of settlement. The term ‘Neolithic’ was coined by Sir John Lubbock in 1865 as a refinement of the three-age system.