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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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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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Review of The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture by Jacques Cauvin, translated by Trevor Watkins (New Studies in Archaeology). [PDF]
, 2014 When, almost a century ago, Raphael Pumpelly put forward the ‘oasis theory’ for the origins of farming in the Near East, his was one of the first in a long series of explanations which looked to environment and ecology as the cause of the shift from ...
Bar-Yosef, Ofer +4 more
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The animate house, the institutionalization of the household in Neolithic central Anatolia [PDF]
, 2016 This paper explores the effectiveness of a domestic mode of production model in explaining the development of Neolithic households in South-west Asia, using evidence from the site of Boncuklu in central Anatolia.
Baird, Douglas +2 more
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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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Decorating the Neolithic: an Evaluation of the Use of Plaster in the Enhancement of Daily Life in the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant [PDF]
, 2012 During the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B in the southern Levant the use of lime plaster in both ritual and domestic contexts increased significantly relative to previous periods.
Clarke, Joanne
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Isotopic and DNA analyses reveal multiscale PPNB mobility and migration across Southeastern Anatolia and the Southern Levant [PDF]
, 2023 Growing reliance on animal and plant domestication in the Near East and beyond during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) (the ninth to eighth millennium BC) has often been associated with a “revolutionary” social transformation from mobility toward more ...
Benz, Marion +9 more
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