ISBN:
9781000813326
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (401 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
939.401
Keywords:
Excavations (Archaeology)-Middle East
;
Neolithic period-Middle East
;
Paleolithic period-Middle East
;
Middle East-Antiquities
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: General Perspectives -- 1. Revisiting the Hilly Flanks of Iran: New Data and Shifting Paradigms -- 2. Emergence and Dispersal of Neolithic Lifeways: From Core to Peripheries -- 3. From Cradle to Mosaic: The Metaphors We Live By -- 4. Human Dimensions of the Transition from Hunting-Gathering to Agro-Pastoralism -- PART II: New Fieldwork/Regional Perspectives -- 5. Epipalaeolithic Campsite at the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, Nawdarwan Valley, Kermanshah Region, West-Central Zagros Mountains -- 6. Environment and Subsistence in the Zagros Epipalaeolithic: New Insights from Palegawra Cave -- 7. The TCEC Project and its Implications for Investigating Neolithisation of the Eastern Fertile Crescent -- 8. Körtiktepe in the Origin and Development of the Neolithic in Upper Mesopotamia -- PART III: Lithic Industries -- 9. The Earliest Neolithic Lithic Traditions: Evidence from Chogha Golan in the Western Foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Iran -- 10. Multiperiod Chipped Stone Assemblages: Preliminary Report on Caves and Rock Shelters in Izeh Plain, Khuzestan, Iran -- 11. Aceramic Neolithic Flaked Stone Assemblages from Trench III, East Chia Sabz, West Iran -- PART IV: Ceramics -- 12. Fars as a Multi-Cultural Zone during the Neolithic Period -- 13. Tell Begum, Shaikh Marif and Shakar Tepe: The Late Neolithic Pottery in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan -- 14. The Dung Among Other Tempers in Zagros and Mesopotamia Neolithic Pottery -- PART V: Miscellaneous -- 15. Ganj Dareh Burial Practice and Social Memory -- 16. 'DomestiSensation': Current State of Plant Analyses in Göbekli Tepe, Southeast Turkey.
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