[Lynne]

I read all this stuff, but I still don't know where the walled city and huge round tower of Jericho fit in. (9000 BC) Obviously, somebody moved from hunter gatherer to city dweller long, long before the dating in this article. (5-6,000 BC the land became fertile again, etc.)

[Junior]

The move from hunter-gatherer to agricultural society was not an overnight, all-or-nothing thing. It was a gradual process with the two groups co-existing for thousands of years.