The Plant Macrofossil Evidence From Sheikh-E Abad:

Whitlam, Jade; Ilkhani, Hengameh; Bogaard, Amy; Charles, Michael

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“…Ganj Dareh, in the high Zagros, has the earliest known evidence for goat domestication 7 8 9 , and the foothills of the Zagros mountains have also been argued to have been the site of early farming 3 . In addition, early sites such as Sheikh-e Abad (11.650-9,600 cal BP) provide evidence of early stages of barley cultivation 38 . Were these innovations independent of similar achievements that made up the Neolithic package that North West Anatolians brought into Europe?…”

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The genetics of an early Neolithic pastoralist from the Zagros, Iran

Llorente

Connell

Jones

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The agricultural transition profoundly changed human societies. We sequenced and analysed the first genome (1.39x) of an early Neolithic woman from Ganj Dareh, in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, a site with early evidence for an economy based on goat herding, ca. 10,000 BP. We show that Western Iran was inhabited by a population genetically most similar to hunter-gatherers from the Caucasus, but distinct from the Neolithic Anatolian people who later brought food production into Europe. The inhabitants of Ganj Dareh made little direct genetic contribution to modern European populations, suggesting those of the Central Zagros were somewhat isolated from other populations of the Fertile Crescent. Runs of homozygosity are of a similar length to those from Neolithic farmers, and shorter than those of Caucasus and Western Hunter-Gatherers, suggesting that the inhabitants of Ganj Dareh did not undergo the large population bottleneck suffered by their northern neighbours. While some degree of cultural diffusion between Anatolia, Western Iran and other neighbouring regions is possible, the genetic dissimilarity between early Anatolian farmers and the inhabitants of Ganj Dareh supports a model in which Neolithic societies in these areas were distinct.

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The genetics of an early Neolithic pastoralist from the Zagros, Iran

Llorente

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Jones

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“…Most previous reviews of Neolithic ecology and fire focus on charred plant remains recovered by water-flotation and screening (Charles, 2008;Zeder, 2009). Published palaeobotanical data on charred plant remains reviewed here include: in the upper Zagros, Ganj Dareh (van Zeist et al, 1986), Tepe Abdul Hossein (Hubbard, 1990;Willcox, 1990) and Sheikh-e Abad (Whitlam et al, 2013); in the piedmont Ali Kosh (Helbaek, 1969), Jarmo (Helbaek, 1960;Watson, 1983) and Chogha Golan (Riehl et al, 2012(Riehl et al, , 2013; the north Mesopotamian steppe at Qermez Dere and M'lefaat (Savard et al, 2006); and in the alluvial plains Chogha Bonut (Miller, 2003). Sites with data from analysis of charred seeds and wood are highlighted in italics, other sites represent here data from charred seeds only.…”

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Humans and fire: Changing relations in early agricultural and built environments in the Zagros, Iran, Iraq

Matthews

2016

The Anthropocene Review

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Fire-centred studies have recently been highlighted as powerful avenues for investigation of energy flows and relations between humans, materials, environments and other species. The aim in this paper is to evaluate this potential first by reviewing the diverse theories and methods that can be applied to investigate the ecological and social significance of anthropogenic fire, and second by applying these to new and existing data sets in archaeology. This paper examines how fire-centred approaches can inform on one of the most significant step-changes in human lifeways and interrelations with environment and other species -the transition from mobile hunting-gathering to more sedentary agriculture in a key heartland of change, the Zagros region of Iraq and Iran, c. 12,000-8,000 BP. In the review and case studies multiple links are investigated between human fire use and environment, ecology, energy use, technology, the built environment, health, social roles and relations, cultural practices and catastrophic events.

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“…Deciduous oaks (Quercus spp.) at the Lakes Zeribar and Van increase very slowly after the Younger Dryas (Litt et al 2009;van Zeist and Bottema 1977;Wick et al 2003), but they were present in relatively high amounts in the coastal regions throughout the Late Glacial and the early Holocene (Wright and Thorpe 2003). While there were obviously regional differences in vegetation development within the Fertile Crescent, the different proxy records from each region are occasionally controversial, particularly moisture availability and the potential access to wild cereal resources.…”

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