It has been suggested that the first Middle Eastern farmers had [[North Africa]]n influences mainly from the [[Capsian culture]]. There have been suggestions that some genetic lineages found in the Middle East arrived there during this period. The first Agricultural societies in the Middle East are generally thought to have emerged from the [[Natufian Culture]], which existed in Palestine from 12,000 BCE-10,000 BCE. An important migration from North-West Africa occurred by the [[Ibero-Maurisian]]s from [[Morocco]] across the [[Sinai Peninsula|Sinai]] appears to have occurred before the formation of the Natufian.