Starting 6200 BC, Arabia dried out. Meanwhile, the Asians domesticated carp. Today we have a report from the 6200 BC Near East.
Amos Frumkin et al. report a lot of lightning struck the forests around the Galilee and Jordan. This burned the tinder, already dry as this blog has noted from Arabia - and Frumkin sees in the Dead Sea. What rains as did still come, flooded ash-laded soils from the hills (eroding them) into the vales. People moved down into the vales which, if not as rainy, at least could be irrigated.
I don't know if irrigation around the Dead Sea could have intercepted some of the rainwater before it got to the Plain. I guess Frumkin doesn't see major cities in Jericho or Tall Hammam or wherever else at this time.
Amos Frumkin claims that this is the start of the Neolithic Revolution. He may be extrapolating to the wider Levant including Assyria. I suspect that's more than fair around Khuzestan.
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