Few cultural developments have taken on as much archeological significance as when
people began living in villages and producing their own food. The economic, social …

In this new paperback edition of Early Civilizations of the Old World, Charles Keith Maisels
traces the development of some of the earliest and key civilizations in history. In each case …

During the last decade, considerable advances have been made in our knowledge of the
origins of cereal and pulse domestication in south-west Asia. Archaeobotanical …

This article reassesses the timing, context, and impetus for the onset of sedentary, complex
hunter-gatherers, food production, and village life in the Near East during the Late …

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 …

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 …

Concepts of refuse behavior and site abandonment have been developed that show
potential to distinguish degrees of mobility and sedentism among past human communities …

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 …

Southwest Asia is regarded as the earliest centre of extensive plant and animal
domestication in the world. Since the late 1940s a succession of projects have looked at the …

This paper argues that the search for an overarching explanation for the adoption of farming
and settled life in the Middle East can be enhanced by a consideration of the dependencies …