ABSTRACT
This volume brings together the latest results and discussions from research carried out in the eastern Fertile Crescent, the so-called hilly flanks, and adjacent regions, as well as providing key historical perspectives on earlier fieldwork in the region.
The emergence of sedentary food producing societies in southwest Asia ca. 10,000 years ago has been a key research focus for archaeologists since the 1930s. This book provides a balance to the weight of work undertaken in the western Fertile Crescent, namely the Levant and southern Anatolia. This preference has led to a heavy emphasis on these regions in discussions about where, when and how the transition from hunting and gathering to plant cultivation and animal domestication occurred. Chapters assess the role of the eastern Fertile Crescent as a key region in the Neolithization process in southwest Asia, highlighting the key and important contributions people in this region made to the emergence of sedentary farming societies.
This book is primarily aimed at academics researching the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in southwest Asia. It will also be of interest to archaeologists working on this transition in other parts of Eurasia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|80 pages
General Perspectives
part II|82 pages
New Fieldwork/Regional Perspectives
chapter 6|13 pages
Environment and Subsistence in the Zagros Epipalaeolithic
part III|70 pages
Lithic Industries
chapter 1709|28 pages
The Earliest Neolithic Lithic Traditions
chapter 10|26 pages
Multiperiod Chipped Stone Assemblages
part IV|70 pages
Ceramics
chapter 13|18 pages
Tell Begum, Shaikh Marif and Shakar Tepe
part V|62 pages
Miscellaneous