What is clear, is that around 4, 000 years ago, horses were being harnessed in the Near East.
It also expresses its appreciation to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
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With the sudden arrival of cooler, drier and less predictable seasons, early human attempts at agriculture in the Near East ceased, and people returned to nomadic hunting and gathering.
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Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, best known as UNRWA. There, on UNRWA's home page, as of this writing, is a photo of the U.N.
Under that theory, hunter-gatherers in Europe would have learned about new farming techniques from the originators in the Near East and switched over on their own to the new lifestyle.
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About 10, 000 years ago, modern humans discovered how to make knives out of copper, and around 5, 000 years ago, craftsmen in the Near East began to make them out of bronze.
But studies of the DNA of farmers living in Europe some 5, 000 to 8, 000 years ago often show affinities with modern-day peoples in the Near East and Turkey, while appearing different from earlier hunter-gatherer populations.
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Violence has been particularly fierce in the south, where U.S. Marines have targeted the militants, and in the east near the Pakistani border, where American soldiers have been operating.
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The group has twice abandoned bomb-making equipment (once in a taxi near Torreblanca, in the east, and once in a car near the Portuguese border at Ayamonte, to the south-west) as its members feared being caught.
At least one foreigner died in the terrorist attack on the In Amenas field near the Libyan border in the east, Algeria's Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
Brighton and Hove City Council granted planning permission in April for the wheel in the East Cliff conservation area, near Brighton Pier.
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He served as senior trade development representative in the Africa, Near East, South Asia (ANESA) region during the Reagan Administration.
In addition to the Fed stimulus, Sean Lusk, precious metals analyst at Ironbeam, said the rising tensions in the Middle East may keep gold supported in the near term.
At the Nissan car factory near Sunderland in the North East, this strategy seems to be working.
In October, when plans were being made to take the first group of Eritreans to Eritrea via the border near Bure in the north-east, the Eritrean Government said it could not guarantee the security of people travelling on that route.
They discussed the importance of creating an atmosphere for peace in the Middle East and agreed to follow up in the near future on a broad range of issues of mutual interests.
Many pied-a-terre owners buy in the Upper East or West Side and it is worth checking out Turtle Bay, a separate enclave in the east 40s near the UN.
The map below shows the cooler waters in the tropical Atlantic with anomalously warm water in the Gulf of Mexico and near the East Coast.
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Rajin-Sonbong (or Rason, for short) lies by the Sea of Japan in the country's north-east, near the border with Russia.
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The radar incident happened near a group of islands in the East China Sea which both countries claim.
Almond was described as "stable" on Wednesday by the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, following the crash near St Paul's Cathedral.
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One supposed couple in an apartment building near the East River celebrated Columbus Day with four different sexual positions last night.
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More exotic fare, such as smoked venison, trout and salmon, can be found at Upton Smokery near Burford in the east of the region.
Morsi has served as a central behind-the-scenes player for much of the past decade, Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy writes in a column for The New Republic.
Morsi has served as a central behind-the-scenes player for much of the past decade, Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy wrote in a column for The New Republic.
According to Israel's Peace Now movement, Mr Barak, since he came to power, has sanctioned 4, 028 new houses in Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, including 2, 149 in or near East Jerusalem.
The rig was working on what will be a 25-story building near the East River in Queens' Long Island City neighborhood, behind a large neon Pepsi-Cola sign that serves as a local landmark.
The ground troops have engaged Republican Guard forces to the west near Karbala and to the east near Kut, according to reports from correspondents in the field.
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