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The researchers suggest that the cooler conditions caused the Natufians to create settlements in the area, reducing the roaming that occurred as part of their hunter/gatherer efforts. Also, because of the relatively stable conditions, they believe the establishment of settlements eventually led to the domestication of wild cereals, which led to the first known instances of agriculture. The Natufian people lived from approximately 12,500 to 9,500 BC in the Levant, a region of the Middle East that now is mapped to Cypress, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon Syria, Turkey and Palestine and they are thought to have decedents that were the people who built the first Neolithic settlements in the area.