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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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The bird remains from WF16, an early Neolithic settlement in southern Jordan: Assemblage composition, chronology and spatial distribution

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, Bill Finlayson, Cheryl Makarewicz, Fares Khoury, Ben Greet, Steven Mithen   +5 more
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Sediment cascades and the entangled relationship between human impact and natural dynamics at the pre‐pottery Neolithic site of Göbekli Tepe, Anatolia

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, Fabian Becker, Ricarda Braun, Nadja Pöllath, Daniel Knitter, Joris Peters, Brigitta Schütt   +6 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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Resilience at the Transition to Agriculture: The Long‐Term Landscape and Resource Development at the Aceramic Neolithic Tell Site of Chogha Golan (Iran)

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, E. Asouti, D. Karakaya, B. M. Starkovich, M. Zeidi, N. J. Conard, Otto Appenzeller   +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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The Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East

The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 1154-1196, November 2024.
Abstract This paper investigates the causes and the consequences of the emergence of agriculture in the Middle East. Agriculture has emerged in many parts of the world since the end of the last Ice Age about 15 000 years ago. The paper first surveys the Palaeolithic Period to understand why agriculture did not emerge earlier.
Robert C. Allen
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Early Neolithic avifaunal remains from southeast Anatolia provide insight into Early Holocene species distributions and long‐term shifts in their range

Ibis, Volume 166, Issue 4, Page 1264-1279, October 2024.
Based on the species‐rich avifaunas from Early Neolithic sites across Upper Mesopotamia (southeast Türkiye, northern Syria, northern Iraq), we compared seven species' Early Holocene distribution patterns with that of their modern species ranges.
Nadja Pöllath, Joris Peters
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RETRACTED: Geo‐archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page O1-025, April/June 2024.
Abstract The multidisciplinary study of Gunung Padang has revealed compelling evidence of a complex and sophisticated megalithic site. Correlations between rock stratifications observed through surface exposures, trenching and core logs, combined with GPR facies, ERT layers, and seismic tomograms, demonstrate the presence of multi‐layer constructions ...
Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, Andang Bachtiar, Bagus Endar B. Nurhandoko, Ali Akbar, Pon Purajatnika, Mudrik R. Daryono, Dadan D. Wardhana, Andri S. Subandriyo, Andi Krisyunianto, Tagyuddin, Budianto Ontowiryo, Yusuf Maulana   +11 more
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