The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent

The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within the scope of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, excavations have been co...

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description The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within the scope of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, excavations have been conducted since 2012 at two Early Neolithic sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq: Bestansur and Shimshara. Bestansur represents an early stage in the transition to sedentary, farming life, where the inhabitants pursued a mixed strategy of hunting, foraging, herding and cultivating, maximizing the new opportunities afforded by the warmer, wetter climate of the Early Holocene. They also constructed substantial buildings of mudbrick, including a major building with a minimum of 65 human individuals, mainly infants, buried under its floor in association with hundreds of beads. These human remains provide new insights into mortuary practices, demography, diet and disease.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-353032025-07-31T08:05:49Z The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent Raheem, Kamal Rasheed Matthews, Wendy Richardson, Amy Matthews, Roger Social Science Archaeology History Ancient thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within the scope of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, excavations have been conducted since 2012 at two Early Neolithic sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq: Bestansur and Shimshara. Bestansur represents an early stage in the transition to sedentary, farming life, where the inhabitants pursued a mixed strategy of hunting, foraging, herding and cultivating, maximizing the new opportunities afforded by the warmer, wetter climate of the Early Holocene. They also constructed substantial buildings of mudbrick, including a major building with a minimum of 65 human individuals, mainly infants, buried under its floor in association with hundreds of beads. These human remains provide new insights into mortuary practices, demography, diet and disease. 2020-12-24T04:03:03Z 2020 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45832 9781789255294 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35303 eng open access image/png image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45832/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45832/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45832/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45832/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45832/1/external_content.pdf Oxbow Books Oxbow Books 53fda2f2-3fe6-4765-8758-df63da48bd65 Knowledge Unlatched 9781789255294 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Open Services Oxbow Books open access
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The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
title The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
title_full The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
title_fullStr The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
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Archaeology
History
Ancient
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