The transition from foraging to farming of the Neolithic periods is one of, if not, the most
important cultural processes in recent human prehistory. Integrating previously published …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with an updated description of the
archeological evidence for the origins of agriculture in the Near East. Specifically, I will …

Population growth, or, more specifically, pressure, is often viewed as being critical to the
development of food production in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East. It is surprising …

Few prehistoric developments have received as much attention as the origins of agriculture
and its associated societal implications in the Near East. A great deal of this research has …

The dynamics of Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic adaptations in the southern Levant from
areas west of the Rift Valley are briefly described and evaluated against the backdrop of …

IDENTIFYING THE TRACES OF VARIOUS TYPES of social organizations and institutions in
the archaeological residues by reference to those known to us from historical and …

Ten thousand years before Neolithic farmers settled in permanent villages, hunter-gatherer
groups of the Epipalaeolithic period (c. 22–11,600 cal BP) inhabited much of southwest …

The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period saw the establishment of village farming in
Southwest Asia and it is one of the earliest cultural complexes for which we can follow …

This article discusses social interaction in the Epipalaeolithic of southwest Asia. Discussions
of contact, social relationships and social organization have primarily focused on the Pre …