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 …

The impressive list of the achievements of the Neolithic of the southern Levant encompasses
village life, crop domestication, ceramic technology, and life-like plaster sculpture. Together …

This article is concerned with the social processes involved in the formation of large
agglomerated villages in the Neolithic of the Near East and Anatolia, with particular …

The scale and nature of early cultivation are topics that have received relatively limited
attention in research on the origins of agriculture. In Southwest Asia, one the earliest centers …

Archaeologists have proposed that quite a number of structures dating to the Pre-Pottery
Neolithic A and B in southwest Asia were nondomestic ritual buildings, sometimes described …

Despite extensive research on the transition from semimobile hunters and gatherers to
sedentary, food-producing villagers in Southwest Asia, associated changes in community …

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 …

Drawing on both the results of recent archaeological research and anthropological theory,
leading experts synthesize current thinking on the nature of and variation within Neolithic …

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 …

The end of the tenth and the entire ninth millennia bp (uncalibrated) represent a period of
major transition in lifeways, from mobile hunter-gatherers to food production in the …