essay
The origins of agriculture in the Near East
last hunters, first farmers • Santa Fe, N.M. • Published In 1995 • Pages: 39-94, 301-346
By: Bar-Yosef, Ofer, Meadow, Richard H..
Abstract
Bar-Yosef and Meadow write about the origins of cultivation which occurred during the Natufian period, and the origins of animal husbandry which occurred during the Neolithic (and was not indexed for OCM [Outline of Cultural Materials] subjects). They summarize some of the geographical features, the paleoclimatological changes, and the archaeology from 24,000 to 10,000 years ago. They stress that farmers coexisted with hunter-gatherers. They believe sedentism came before cereal cultivation. And that successful agriculture (and sedentism) depended on the development of the concepts of real property and territoriality.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2009
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry; 2007
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 24,000 BP-10,000 BP
- Coverage Place
- Near East: Eygpt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordon, Lebanon, Palestinian Autonomous Areas, Syria, and Turkey
- Notes
- Ofer Bar-Yosef and Richard H. Meadow
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-346)
- LCSH
- Middle East--Antiquities