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The organization of the early villages in the Near East was correlated to the incipient stages of pre-adaptation that led to the new economic sys tem (Flannery, 1969,1973; Braidwood, 1973). Pre-adaptation models were also tentatively applied to the Nile valley (among others, Clark, 1971) and to the southern Sahara (Clark et al, 1973). However, even though some preconditions existed in both areas, their inhabitants chose to respond to their new emerging needs of intensification and increased predictability of resources in different ways. Thus, different indicators must be looked for in the archaeological records. In fact, in northern Africa, domestication was often a later event than pottery and grindstone production. Moreover, semi sedentary settlements came into place before domestication and favored the use of ceramic containers and grinding stones