 Kebaran shows affinities with the earlier Helwan phase in the Egyptian Fayyum, and may be associated with a movement of people across the Sinai associated with the climatic warming after the Late Glacial Maxima of 20,000 BCE.Kebaran affiliated cultures spread as far as Southern Turkey.The latest part of the period () is the time of flourishing of the Natufian culture and development of sedentism among the hunter-gatherers.