The Levant (Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine) and North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan) each tell their own distinct prehistoric stories — Natufian hunter-gatherers and Pre-Pottery Neolithic Levant in the east, Late Pleistocene North African foragers and the Nile valley in the south. Those belong in separate Levant and North African Mediterranean reports.
The Anatolian samples we do keep (n=40, all from the Aegean-coast Marmara, Central Anatolia, and Southeast Anatolia) give us the near-eastern context we need for the Aegean Neolithic farming horizon — without dragging the report into the Levantine genetic landscape.
