Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One The Land of Asia Minor
- Chapter Two Archaeology in Asia Minor
- Chapter Three Hunter-Gatherers of the Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic (20,000–6000 BC)
- Chapter Four Early Farmers of the Southern Plateau (8500–6500 BC)
- Chapter Five Neolithic Dispersals (6500–5500 BC)
- Chapter Six Millennia in the Middle (5500–3000 BC)
- Chapter Seven Elites and Commoners (3000–2000 BC)
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter Four - Early Farmers of the Southern Plateau (8500–6500 BC)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One The Land of Asia Minor
- Chapter Two Archaeology in Asia Minor
- Chapter Three Hunter-Gatherers of the Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic (20,000–6000 BC)
- Chapter Four Early Farmers of the Southern Plateau (8500–6500 BC)
- Chapter Five Neolithic Dispersals (6500–5500 BC)
- Chapter Six Millennia in the Middle (5500–3000 BC)
- Chapter Seven Elites and Commoners (3000–2000 BC)
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Near Eastern Neolithic is of enormous culture-historical significance. Although Neolithic ‘revolutions’ also occurred in several other regions of the world, the Near Eastern Neolithic was both the earliest and eventually had the most far-reaching impact on the global development of humanity due to the domestication of a comparatively productive suite of domesticated plants and animals that allowed for a swift and vast expansion of agriculture outside the Near East.
After hundreds of thousands of years during which human groups obtained their nourishment from a combination of hunting, gathering, and fishing, and in which groups were, with a few exceptions, both small and mobile, the transition to a settlement-based existence founded on an agricultural economy in the Near East occurred within a relatively brief span of time that may not have lasted more than a few centuries.
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- The Prehistory of Asia MinorFrom Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies, pp. 47 - 121Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010