• This volume brings together the latest research carried out in the eastern Fertile, as well as providing key historical perspectives, offering a comprehensive overview of the region • By assessing the role of the eastern Fertile Crescent as a key region in the Neolithization process in southwest Asia, the book balances the prodigious output on the western Fertile Crescent offering a borader perspective for readers • This book is for students and researchers of the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in southwest Asia and the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods in southwest Asia more generally

• This volume brings together the latest research carried out in the eastern Fertile, as well as providing key historical perspectives, offering a comprehensive overview of the region • By assessing the role of the eastern Fertile Crescent as a key region in the Neolithization process in southwest Asia, the book balances the prodigious output on the western Fertile Crescent offering a borader perspective for readers • This book is for students and researchers of the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in southwest Asia and the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods in southwest Asia more generally

During recent years new excavations at a number of Neolithic locations in the Central Zagros by German, British and Iranian archaeologists have revealed a series of important results. Notable are the Early Neolithic sites of Choga Golan, Jani, Sheikh-e Abad, and East Chia Sabz, all discovered and excavated within the last ten years. In this volume Hojjat Darabi gives a survey of the discoveries on which our knowledge is based. The book is set in a chronological frame, in an environmental context, and in a regional and theoretical perspective. It is illustrated by a number of useful photos, drawings charts and diagrams. The book is a presentation of our knowledge about Neolithic Revolution as it appears right now; in addition, its provides an outline of further steps for future research.