meanwhile archaeologists have been able to pursue eisley determined militant migration patterns. all they need to carry out a comprehensive analysis are a few bones or teeth that contain traces of d.n.a. . this is the same method that proved that central europeans were descended from the people of anatolia. researchers also came up with another surprising discovery. in a. so i can shoot good they examined genetic material found in what is now iran that is the heartland of the fertile crescent and they found a break in the migration paten approximately between western iran and western anatolia these days the population groups have become so diverse there are indications that they may have split up between fifty and seventy thousand years ago following the migration of anatomically modern humans from africa both major groups became sedentary farm the land and built houses. horse of both. populations made the transition to sedentary culture in both europe and asia at about the same time but of course independently of one another. megalithic structures can be found throughout asia an