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Since there is archaeological and physical anthropological reason to believe that the Natufians were related to modern Semitic-speaking peoples of the Levant, I suggest that some part, if not all of, the Afro-Asiatic family originated north of Africa porper. Since Natufian culture dates to ca. 10,000 to 12,000 years ago it is suggested that the age of the AfroAsiaic language family might also be about that old.