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Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2023 The humans of the Göbekli Tepe Neolithic culture of the Upper Euphrates Basin left behind long-term settlements with surprising monumental structures and a rich set of symbolism.
Orhan Ayaz
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How we got stuck: The origins of hierarchy and inequality
Mind &Language, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 751-759, September 2022., 2022 Kim Sterelny's book The Pleistocene social contract provides an exceptionally well‐informed and credible narrative explanation of the origins of inequality and hierarchy. In this essay review, we reflect on the role of rational choice theory in Sterelny's project, before turning to Sterelny's reasons for doubting the importance of cultural group ...
Jonathan Birch, Andrew Buskell
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COMPOSITE HUMAN‐ANIMAL FIGURES IN EARLY URBAN NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA: SHAMANS OR IMAGES OF RESISTANCE?
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 230-251, August 2022., 2022 Summary Urban growth in northern Mesopotamia in the early fourth millennium BC was accompanied by an increase in clay container sealings, reflecting the intensified movement and management of resources and manufactured items. The diverse imagery impressed into these sealings includes a human‐ibex grasping a pair of snakes, a bird‐human, and other ...
Augusta McMahon
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 31, Issue 6, Page 1030-1045, November/December 2021., 2021 Abstract Excavations at the early Neolithic settlement of WF16 in Faynan, southern Jordan, 11.84–10.24 ka BP, recovered 17,700 bird bones, of which 7808 could be identified to at least family level. Sixty‐three different bird taxa are present from 18 families, representing a mix of resident and migrant birds, based on present‐day ecology.
Judith White +5 more
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Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 430-442, February 2021., 2021 Geomorphodynamic activity in the surroundings of the Early Neolithic hilltop site Göbekli Tepe is significantly intensified between ca. 7.4–7.0 and 5.8–3.3 ka BP, reflecting demographic, sociocultural, and climatic variations. The studied landscape compartments form a sediment cascade whose different depositional environments vary with respect to their
Moritz Nykamp +6 more
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Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus
Cliodynamics, 2016 A long-standing debate on the dynamics of population growth in human history has become polarized between a Malthusian stance and a Boserupian one. The former tends to view population growth as limited by carrying capacity, dependent on environment and ...
Axel Kristinsson +1 more
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The adoption of cattle pastoralism in the Arabian Peninsula: A reappraisal
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 168-177, May 2020., 2020 Abstract The translocation of livestock into the Arabian Peninsula was underway by the sixth millennium BC. It remains unclear, however, whether nascent pastoralism in Arabia focused on specialised cattle herding, intensive caprine husbandry, or more extensive forms of sheep, goat and cattle management.
Cheryl A. Makarewicz
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BioMed Research International, Volume 2015, Issue 1, 2015., 2015 The evidence for the slow development from gathering and cultivation of wild species to the use of domesticates in the Near East, deriving from a number of Epipalaeolithic and aceramic Neolithic sites with short occupational stratigraphies, cannot explain the reasons for the protracted development of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent.
S. Riehl +6 more
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To vegetable: Seasons that require us
Crop Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, March/April 2025.Abstract Domestication of cereals tracks with the natural life cycle of plants in the Poaceae family, but vegetables represent a different modality and often possess a truncated life cycle. The evolution of vegetable biodiversity required curatorial work each growing season that differed in important ways from curation of grains or perennial crops ...
I. L. Goldman
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City, Territory and ArchitectureContemporary urban transformations are increasingly challenging the traditional categories through which the urban has been conceptualized, highlighting the need for a critical reinterpretation of its origins.
Lidia Decandia, Natalia Agati
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