Origins of Food Production in Southwestern Asia: A Survey of Ideas

Wright, Gary A.

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“…Since the mid-19th century it had been well established that about 10,000 years ago agriculture became the main subsistence strategy in Southwestem Asia. Several models were advanced to explain the emergence of farming communities in the "Fertile Crescent," starting with Childe's "propinquity theory," through various ecological-demographic models and different versions of the "climatic trigger" approach (7,16,37,48,61,72,73,74,91), and still the debate goes on.…”

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The Natufian in the Levant

Belfer‐Cohen¹

1991

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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The Natufian in the Levant

Belfer‐Cohen¹

1991

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

108

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“…However, these general trends do not necessarily speak to the importance of local environmental conditions and their variability in space and time. Flannery (1973) sought to define a role for marginal areas with suboptimal resources (in contrast with nuclear areas) in the origin of agriculture (see also Wright 1992). Suboptimality could result from local population increases as well as a reduction in resources induced by environmental changes (or both).…”

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Introduction: The Domestication of Plants and Animals: Ten Unanswered Questions

Gepts

Bettinger

Brush

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Biodiversity in Agriculture

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Some 15,000 to 10,000 years ago, humans started seeding and harvesting plants and maintaining animals in order to augment the food they obtained from wild-growing plants and hunting. These seemingly simple activities set in motion a long-term process that has led to the dominance of agriculture as we know it today. With the exception of a few remaining hunter-gatherer groups, agriculture has now become the most important source of food for most people. Agriculture is also a major source of feed for animals and of fiber. This transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture was without a doubt one of the most significant eras in the evolution of humans. It allowed food production on a more intensive and efficient scale than ever before, eventually leading to population increases, labor specialization (and especially a nonagricultural sector), the formation of villages, cities, and states, and the rise of more hierarchical societies and states (MacNeish 1991, Barker 2006). The late Professor J. R. Harlan (1917-1998) understood that the complexity of the biological, societal, and environmental changes involved in the transition to agriculture, as well as their antiquity of up to 10,000 years, necessitated a multidisciplinary approach if one is to understand the factors and processes that have led to the "neolithic revolution." Anthropologists, archaeologists, climatologists, ethnobiologists, geneticists, geographers, linguists, physiologists, and other practitioners all contribute to the field of crop evolution studies. J. R. Harlan also expressed concerns that the very development and spread of improved crop varieties were leading to losses in crop biodiversity, well before concerns about biodiversity became common knowledge. He made clear how the knowledge of evolutionary processes in crops facilitated the conservation of biodiversity and its use in the development of improved crop varieties. The vision of Professor Harlan was the inspiration for the first Harlan Symposium, which took place in 1997 in Aleppo, Syria, at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). That symposium was remarkable because it brought together plant scientists and archaeologists

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Sumaki Höyük Neolitik Dönem Mimarisi: Mimari Plan, Yapı Malzemeleri ve Yerleşim Stratejisindeki Farklılaşmayı Anlamak

SARIALTUN

2023

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Yukarı Mezopotamya Neolitik Dönem yerleşimlerinde sürdürülen yeni kazı ve araştırmalar bugüne kadar bildiklerimizden farklı veriler sunmuştur. Bu veriler Neolitik Dönem'e ilişkin eksik bilgilerimizi tamamlamakla birlikte düşünülenden farklı bir tablo ortaya koymaktadır. Böylece, Yakındoğu tarihöncesi arkeolojisinde ve özellikle Yukarı Mezopotamya'da, uzun süre kabul gören mimari deneyimler, yerleşim stratejisi ve soyal yapı gibi kavramların yeniden sorgulanması gerekliliği açığa çıkmıştır. Bu makale, Yukarı Mezopotamya dağ-ova geçiş bölgesindeki Son-PPNB - İlk Çanak Çömlekli Neolitik bir yerleşim yeri olan Sumaki Höyük’ün mimarisi ve yerleşim düzenindeki farklılaşmanın nedenselliklerini ortaya koymaktır. Ayrıca, bu çalışma Sumaki Höyük özelinde Neolitik Dönem insanlarının bilinçli veya bilinçsiz olarak doğal ortamı nasıl kullandığını, fiziki ya da sosyal ortamı hangi oranda şekillendirdiğini de tartışmaktadır. Ancak çalışmanın asıl amacı, GÖ 9000-8100 yılları arasında Yukarı Mezopotamya kültürel devinim sürecine dair tartışmalara Sumaki Höyük Neolitik yerleşmesi ve mimari verileriyle katılmaktır.

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Origins of Food Production in Southwestern Asia: A Survey of Ideas

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The Natufian in the Levant

The Natufian in the Levant

Introduction: The Domestication of Plants and Animals: Ten Unanswered Questions

Sumaki Höyük Neolitik Dönem Mimarisi: Mimari Plan, Yapı Malzemeleri ve Yerleşim Stratejisindeki Farklılaşmayı Anlamak

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