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Short, clear chapters each focus on a single topic, presenting
necessary information thoroughly and clearly, in a manner that's
easy for students to grasp Large number of musical examples allows
students to better understand techniques by seeing them in multiple
contexts Companion website provides video demonstrations that help
students understand techniques in action
Short, clear chapters each focus on a single topic, presenting
necessary information thoroughly and clearly, in a manner that's
easy for students to grasp Large number of musical examples allows
students to better understand techniques by seeing them in multiple
contexts Companion website provides video demonstrations that help
students understand techniques in action
The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern
Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from
hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early
Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within the scope of the Central
Zagros Archaeological Project, excavations have been conducted
since 2012 at two Early Neolithic sites in the Kurdistan region of
Iraq: Bestansur and Shimshara. Bestansur represents an early stage
in the transition to sedentary, farming life, where the inhabitants
pursued a mixed strategy of hunting, foraging, herding and
cultivating, maximising the new opportunities afforded by the
warmer, wetter climate of the Early Holocene. They also constructed
substantial buildings of mudbrick, including a major building with
a minimum of 65 human individuals, mainly infants, buried under its
floor in association with hundreds of beads. These human remains
provide new insights into mortuary practices, demography, diet and
disease during the early stages of sedentarisation. The material
culture of Bestansur and Shimshara is rich in imported items such
as obsidian, carnelian and sea-shells, indicating the extent to
which Early Neolithic communities were networked across the Eastern
Fertile Crescent and beyond. This volume includes final reports by
a large-scale interdisciplinary team on all aspects of the results
from excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, through application of
state-of-the-art scientific techniques, methods and analyses. The
net result is to re-emphasise the enormous significance of the
Eastern Fertile Crescent in one of the most important episodes in
human history: the Neolithic transition.
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.
Tell Brak in Syria is one of the largest and most important
multi-period sites in northern Mesopotamia. Excavations in
1994-1996 cast new light on everyday life at the settlement through
several phases of occupation from the early 4th millennium BC to
the 2nd millennium BC. Volume 4 in the Tell Brak Monograph series
provides an account of the architecture, artefacts, and
environmental evidence, supported by a program of radiocarbon
dating. The results emphasize the indigenous nature of cultural
development in Upper Mesopotamia during these millennia. Among the
highlights are a small temple dating to the Ninevite 5 period
(earlier 3rd millennium BC), which provides new insights into a
phenomenon that has hitherto been little explored; and an
exceptional hoard of precious materials and artefacts that
underlines the importance of Tell Brak in the later 3rd millennium
BC. The report is completed by studies of subsistence, diet,
economy, use of space, and craft activities, which focus on the
variabilities and continuities in daily life that underlay the
shifting political and cultural forces. These studies highlight the
unique position of Tell Brak in the long-term ebb and flow of
regional interactions across Mesopotamia.
This fifth volume of Abu Salabikh Excavations is the definitive
account of the excavation of two large domestic residences at the
Early Dynastic III city at Abu Salabikh, in south Iraq 15 km to the
north of Nippur. It describes and illustrates the houses and their
contents, in particular the intramural burials, with coverage of
the human osteology, and botanical, zoological and
micromorphological studies.
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