Editing Levant (section)

=== Genetics ===
{{further|Genetic history of the Middle East}}
Ancient DNA analysis has confirmed the genetic relationship between [[Natufians]] and other ancient and modern Middle Easterners. The presence of [[Anatolian hunter-gatherers|Neolithic Anatolian]] and [[Iranian hunter-gatherers|Neolithic Iranian]] ancestry among modern Levantines can be attributed to [[Pre-modern human migration|migrations]] during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Almarri |first1=Mohamed A. |last2=Haber |first2=Marc |last3=Lootah |first3=Reem A. |last4=Hallast |first4=Pille |display-authors=3 |date=2021 |title=The genomic history of the Middle East |journal=Cell |volume=184 |issue=18 |pages=4612–4625 |doi=10.1016/j.cell.2021.07.013 |pmid=34352227 |pmc=8445022 }}</ref>

According to recent [[ancient DNA]] studies, Levantines derive most of their ancestry from [[ancient Semitic-speaking peoples]] of the [[Bronze Age|Bronze]] and [[Iron Age|Iron]] age Levant.<ref name="Haber">{{cite journal |title=A Genetic History of the Near East from an aDNA Time Course Sampling Eight Points in the Past 4,000 Years |journal=American Journal of Human Genetics |year=2020 |doi=10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.05.008|last1=Haber |first1=Marc |last2=Nassar |first2=Joyce |last3=Almarri |first3=Mohamed A. |last4=Saupe |first4=Tina |last5=Saag |first5=Lehti |last6=Griffith |first6=Samuel J. |last7=Doumet-Serhal |first7=Claude |last8=Chanteau |first8=Julien |last9=Saghieh-Beydoun |first9=Muntaha |last10=Xue |first10=Yali |last11=Scheib |first11=Christiana L. |last12=Tyler-Smith |first12=Chris |volume=107 |issue=1 |pages=149–157 |pmid=32470374 |pmc=7332655 }}</ref> Other Arabs include the [[Bedouins]] of [[Syrian Desert]], Naqab and [[Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria|eastern Syria]], who speak [[Bedouin Arabic]]. Non-Arab minorities include [[Circassians]], [[Chechens]], [[Turkic peoples|Turks]], [[Jews]], [[Turkmens]], [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]], [[Kurdish people|Kurds]], [[Nawar people|Nawars]] and [[Armenians]].