Neolithic Revolution: New Perspectives on Southwest Asia in Light of Recent Discoveries on CyprusE. J. Peltenburg, Alexander Wasse Oxbow Books, 2004 - 188 Seiten The move towards a sedentary way of life had a profound effect on the human way of life: the development of complex societies can be directly attributed to the beginnings of farming in place of a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle. When Gordon Childe coined the term 'Neolithic revolution' he meant it to reflect these vast changes that had occurred in the near east. This book extends the reach of these changes to include Cyprus, presenting new evidence that shows that the island played host to settled farming communities at the same time as the mainland, pushing its habitation back by 2000 years. |
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the islands first occupants and last endemic animals setting | 1 |
Island colonization insularity or mainstream? | 15 |
a view from the mainland | 35 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Abu Hureyra Aceramic Neolithic Aetokremnos agriculture Ain Ghazal Ais Yiorkis Akrotiri Anatolia animals Archaeology artefacts assemblages Bar-Yosef Belfer-Cohen bladelets blades bones Briois Brun Byblos Cape Andreas Cauvin Çayönü cereals Chalcolithic chert chipped stone Chypre colonised colonization of Cyprus context core technology Cypriot Aceramic Cyprus dates debitage Dikaios domestic Dunand earliest early Neolithic engraved pebbles Epi-palaeolithic evidence Excavations fallow deer farming fauna Figure figurines flakes Galili Garfinkel Gebel geometric Göbekli Gopher Guilaine Hillman Holocene hunter-gatherer incised pebbles Jerf el Ahmar Jericho Khirokitia Kholetria-Ortos Kozlowski late Lefkara Levantine lithic mainland material culture McCartney Mediterranean Archaeology Mediterranean islands Munhata Mylouthkia Natufian naviform Neolithic sites Néolithique Ancien Ortos Oxford Paléorient Peltenburg period phase pigs Pleistocene Pottery Neolithic PPNA PPNB Pre-Pottery Neolithic Prehistory Qar`oun Ras Shamra region retouch seals sedentary settlement Sha'ar Hagolan Shillourokambos Simmons social societies southern Levant species Swiny Tenta tion tradition Vigne village Wadi wild Yarmukian