Wagons frigorifiques expérimentaux des F. S.

Fedele, Fabiola

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“…(Peters et al 1999;Russell et al 2005), and although it remains a point of controversy, they may have been domesticated in northeast Africa by nearly the same time (Close and Wendorf 1992;Gautier 2002;MacDonald 2000;Wendorf and Schild 1998). While there have been claims for seventh millennium domestic cattle at Ash-Shumah along the Tihama coast of Yemen (Cattani and Bokonyi 2002:34), this assertion (based largely on a single horn-corn fragment) is widely considered inconclusive (Edens and Wilkinson 1998;Fedele Costantini 1986Costantini , 1990Costantini and Biasini 1985 . " , T 1 / l n n r , Costantini 1986Costantini , 1990; 2851-2140 BC _ .…”

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General/Specific, Local/Global: Comparing the Beginnings of Agriculture in the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia/Eritrea) and Southwest Arabia (Yemen)

Harrower¹,

McCorriston

D’Andrea

2010

Am. antiq.

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The Horn of Africa and Southwest Arabia are less than 30 km apart, yet the timing and nature of transitions to agriculture along the margins of the southern Red Sea differ substantially. This paper compares and contrasts the beginnings of agriculture in highland Ethiopia/Eritrea and Yemen. We evaluate the applicability of general models, emphasize social circumstances and particularities, and highlight the importance of differing spatiotemporal scales from interregional perspectives that address millennia-long changes across continents to local choices during human lifetimes. We consider why agriculture appears so much later than it does throughout the eastern Mediterranean and argue that the traditionally rigid distinction between the "origins" and "spread" of agriculture oversimplifies transitions along the southern Red Sea in which agriculture in some ways diffused to, and in other ways, uniquely originated in Southwest Arabia and the Horn of Africa. We concordantly maintain that, particularly when agriculture is considered a societal transformation, regions where agriculture appears comparatively later are as important to understanding transitions to agriculture as regions where agriculture appears earliest.

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