Becoming Neolithic - The Pivot of Human History

Informationen zum Autor Trevor Watkins is an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh where he taught prehistoric archaeology of the east Mediterranean and southwest Asia for many years. He led excavations in Cyprus, Syria, Iraq and Turkey. For many years, his research has been focused on the Neolithic period in southwest Asia, between twelve and eight thousand years ago. In recent years, he has been concentrating on relating the results of recent archaeological research to the latest theoretical work by leading researchers in cognitive archaeology and the field of cultural evolutionary theory. If evolution takes place over time, then archaeologists should be able to document and calibrate the process with material evidence. Zusammenfassung Becoming Neolithic examines the revolutionary transformation of human life that was taking place around 12,000 years ago in parts of southwest Asia. Hunter-gatherer communities were building the first permanent settlements, creating public monuments and symbolic imagery, and beginning to cultivate crops and manage animals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 A Concentration of Opportunity 2 Changing Subsistence Strategies: Foraging to Farming 3 Changing Subsistence Strategies: Hunting and Herding 4 Early Epipalaeolithic – The Transformation Begins 5 Complex Hunter-Harvesters in the Levant and beyond 6 Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic – Transforming Their World 7 Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic – Climax 8 Further Transformation: Dispersal and Expansion 9 The Evolutionary Framework for the Story 10 The Epipalaeolithic–Neolithic Transformation: The Pivot of Cultural Evolution 11 The Problem of Neolithic Religion 12 The Triple A: Aggregation, Acceleration, Anthropocene

Product details

• Authors: Trevor Watkins, Trevor (University of Edinburgh Watkins, Watkins Trevor
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780415221511
• ISBN: 978-0-415-22151-1
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; prehistory, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Ancient / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Middle East, South East Asia, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING, Middle & Near Eastern archaeology, Becoming Neolithic