Author: Robert John BraidwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Hilly Flanks and Beyond
Author: Robert John BraidwoodThe Hilly Flanks and Beyond
Author: Robert John BraidwoodPublisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The eighteen papers in this volume, presented to Robert J Braidwood, reflect on Braidwood's lifelong obsession: the study of food production and the `origins of agriculture' in the Fertile Crescent between 10,000 and 4,000 BC. Contributors include O Bar Yosef, M-C Cauvin, A M T Moore, K Flannery, P J Watson and J Oates.
The Hilly Flanks and Beyond
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780918986375
Category : Ba (Egyptian religion)
Languages : de
Pages : 0
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The Near East
Author: Charles Keith MaiselsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134664699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Charles Maisels follows the course of discovery of 'the land between the rivers' over more than a century, to our present conclusions - very different from the first discoveries.
Girikihaciyan
Author: Steven A. LeBlancPublisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1950446077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
To the Euphrates and Beyond
Author: O.M.C. HaexPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000151611
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This book contains papers that reflect the wide-ranging interests of the Dutch archaeologist Maurits van Loon—prehistory, art history, and ancient history. It is a mine of useful information and synthesis for archaeologists working in the region of northern Syria.
The Neolithisation of Iran
Author: Hassan Fazeli NashliPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782971939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The period c. 10,000-5000 BC witnessed fundamental changes in the human condition with societies across the Fertile Crescent shifting their alignment from millennia-old practices of seasonally mobile hunting and foraging to year-round sedentism, plant cultivation and animal herding. The significant role of Iran in the early stages of this transition was recognised more than half a century ago but has not been to the fore of academic consciousness in recent decades. In the meantime, investigations into Neolithic transformation have proceeded apace in all other regions of the Fertile Crescent and beyond. Here, 18 studies attempt to redress that balance in re-assessing the role of Iran in the early neolithisation of human societies. These studies, many of them by Iranian scholars, consider patterns of change and/or continuity across a variety of topographical landscapes; investigate Neolithic settlement patterns, the use of caves, animal exploitation and environmental indicators and present new insights into some well-known and some newly investigated sites. The results re-affirm the formative role of this region in the transition to sedentary farming.
The Neolithisation of Iran
Author: Roger MatthewsPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782971904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The period c. 10,000-5000 BC witnessed fundamental changes in the human condition with societies across the Fertile Crescent shifting their alignment from millennia-old practices of seasonally mobile hunting and foraging to year-round sedentism, plant cultivation and animal herding. The significant role of Iran in the early stages of this transition was recognised more than half a century ago but has not been to the fore of academic consciousness in recent decades. In the meantime, investigations into Neolithic transformation have proceeded apace in all other regions of the Fertile Crescent and beyond. Here, 18 studies attempt to redress that balance in re-assessing the role of Iran in the early neolithisation of human societies. These studies, many of them by Iranian scholars, consider patterns of change and/or continuity across a variety of topographical landscapes; investigate Neolithic settlement patterns, the use of caves, animal exploitation and environmental indicators and present new insights into some well-known and some newly investigated sites. The results re-affirm the formative role of this region in the transition to sedentary farming.
The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences
Author: Jean-Pierre Bocquet-AppelPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402085397
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming – the Neolithic Revolution – was one of the most signi cant cultural processes in human history that forever changed the face of humanity. Natu an communities (15,100–12,000Cal BP) (all dates in this chapter are calibrated before present) planted the seeds of change, and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) (ca. 12,000–ca. 8,350Cal BP) people, were the rst to establish farming communities. The revolution was not fully realized until quite late in the PPN and later in the Pottery Neolithic (PN) period. We would like to ask some questions and comment on a few aspects emphas- ing the linkage between biological and cultural developments during the Neolithic Revolution. The biological issues addressed in this chapter are as follows: × Is there a demographic change from the Natu an to the Neolithic? × Is there a change in the overall health of the Neolithic populations compared to the Natu an? × Is there a change in the diet and how is it expressed? × Is there a change in the physical burden/stress people had to bear with? × Is there a change in intra- and inter-community rates of violent encounters? From the cultural perspective the leading questions will be: × What was the change in the economy and when was it fully realized? × Is there a change in settlement patterns and site nature and organization from Natu an to Neolithic? × Is there a change in human activities and division of labor?
Sacred Killing
Author: Anne PorterPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 1575066769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
What is sacrifice? How can we identify it in the archaeological record? And what does it tell us about the societies that practice it? Sacred Killing: The Archaeology of Sacrifice in the Ancient Near East investigates these and other questions through the evidence for human and animal sacrifice in the Near East from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic periods. Drawing on sociocultural anthropology and history in addition to archaeology, the book also includes evidence from ancient China and a riveting eyewitness account and analysis of sacrifice in contemporary India, which engage some of the key issues at stake. Sacred Killing vividly presents a variety of methods and theories in the study of one of the most profound and disturbing ritual activities humans have ever practiced.