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The Earliest Neolithic of Iran - 2008 Excavations at Sheikh-E Abad and Jani (Hardcover)
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The Earliest Neolithic of Iran - 2008 Excavations at Sheikh-E Abad and Jani (Hardcover)
Series: British Institute of Persian Studies Archaeological Monograph Series, 4
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Over a period of several millennia, from the Late Pleistocene to
the Early Holocene (c. 13,000-7000 BC), communities in south-west
Asia developed from hunter-foragers to villager-farmers, bringing
fundamental changes in all aspects of life. These Neolithic
developments took place over vast chronological and geographical
scales, with considerable regional variability in specific
trajectories of change. Two vital and consistent aspects of change
were a shift from mobile to sedentary lifestyles and increasingly
intensive human management of animal and plant resources, leading
to full domestication of particular species. Building on earlier
campaigns of archaeological investigation, the current phase of the
Central Zagros Archaeological Project is designed to explore these
issues in one key region, the Zagros zone including central west
Iran. Two Early Neolithic mounds were excavated: Sheikh-e Abad in
the high Zagros and Jani, in the foothills of the Mesopotamian
plains, each comprising up to 10 m depth of deposits indicating
occupation spanning over 2000 years, and providing great scope for
diachronic and spatial analyses. These two sites make major
contributions to knowledge regarding the origins of sedentism and
increasing resource management in Southwest Asia, and associated
developments in social, cultural and ritual practices in this
formative region of human cultural development.
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