Edited by Arkadiusz Marciniak
The second half of the seventh millennium BC saw the demise of the previously affluent and dynamic Neolithic way of life. The period is marked by significant social and economic transformations of local communities, as manifested in a new spatial organization, patterns of architecture, burial practices, and in chipped stone and pottery manufacture. This volume has three foci. The first concerns the character of these changes in different parts of the Near East with a view to placing them in a broader comparative perspective. The second concerns the social and ideological changes that took place at the end of Neolithic and the beginning of the Chalcolithic that help to explain the disintegration of constitutive principles binding the large centers, the emergence of a new social system, as well as the consequences of this process for the development of full-fledged farming communities in the region and beyond. The third concerns changes in lifeways: subsistence strategies, exploitation of the environment, and, in particular, modes of procurement, consumption, and distribution of different resources
Concluding the Neolithic: The Near East in the Second Half of the Seventh Millen
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340 pages
6 x 9 inches
ISBN 978-1-937040-83-3 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-937040-84-0 (PDF)
November 2019
Table of Contents
Introduction Arkadiusz Marciniak
The Levant and Northern Mesopotamia
The “8200 Cal BP Cold Event” in the Levant Ofer Bar-Yosef
Tumultuous Times in the Eighth and Seventh Millennia BC in the Southern Levant Gary Rollefson
The Nature of the Beast: The Late Neolithic in the Southern Levant A. Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen
Çatalhöyük and Sha’ar Hagolan: A Tale of Two Cities Yosef Garfunkel
Transforming the Upper Mesopotamian Landscape in the Late Neolithic Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse and Peter M. M. G. Akkermans
Central and Southwestern Anatolia
A History of the House at Late Neolithic Çatalhöyük Arkadiusz Marciniak
The Transition between the East and West Mounds at Çatalhöyük around 6000 cal BC: A View from the West Eva Rosenstock, Jana Anvari, Ingmar Franz, David Orton, Sonia Ostaptchouk, Elizabeth Stroud, and Peter F. Biehl
Exploring the Culture Landscape of Neolithic Hacılar (6500–6100 BC), Southwestern Turkey Ralf Vandam
Western and Northwestern Anatolia
Changing Ideologies in Community-Making through the Neolithic Period at Ulucak Özlem Çevik
Adaptation as a Constante in Early Farming Village Economy: An Eight-Thousand-Year-Old Case Jacob Roodenberg
An Entanglement Approach to the Neolithic of the Aegean Islands Burçin Erdoğu
Early Farmers in Northwestern Anatolia in the Seventh Millennium Necmi Karul
Barcın Höyük in Interregional Perspective: An Initial Assessment Rana Özbal and Fokke Gerritsen
Early Farmers in Northwestern Turkey: What Is New? Mehmet Özdoğan
Subject Index