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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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Settlement patterns
- Tribe and nation
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Epipaleolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 24,000 BP-10,000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Near East: Eygpt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordon, Lebanon, Palestinian Autonomous Areas, Syria, and Turkey
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ofer Bar-Yosef and Richard H. Meadow
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-346)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Middle East--Antiquities