TheLevantine corridor is the relatively narrow strip inWestern Asia, between theMediterranean Sea to the northwest anddeserts to the southeast, which connectsAfrica toEurasia. It is the western part of theFertile Crescent, the eastern part of the latter beingMesopotamia. This corridor is a land route of migrations of animals between Eurasia and Africa. In particular, it is believed that earlyhomininsspread from Africa toEurasia via the Levantine corridor andHorn of Africa.[2] The corridor is named after theLevant.
Botanists recognize this area as adispersal route ofplant species.[3]
The distribution of Y-chromosome and mtDNA haplogroups suggests that during thePaleolithic andMesolithic periods, the Levantine corridor was more important for bi-directionalhuman migrations between Africa and Eurasia than was the Horn of Africa.[4]
The term is used frequently byarchaeologists as an area that includesCyprus, where important developments occurred during theNeolithic Revolution.[5]
The first sedentary villages were established around fresh water springs and lakes in the Levantine corridor by theNatufian culture.[6]
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