Neolithic Revolution: New Perspectives on Southwest Asia in Light of Recent Discoveries on CyprusE. J. Peltenburg, Alexander Wasse The move towards a sedentary way of life had a profound effect on the human way of life: the development of complex societies can be directly attributed to the beginnings of farming in place of a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle. When Gordon Childe coined the term 'Neolithic revolution' he meant it to reflect these vast changes that had occurred in the near east. This book extends the reach of these changes to include Cyprus, presenting new evidence that shows that the island played host to settled farming communities at the same time as the mainland, pushing its habitation back by 2000 years. |
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the islands first occupants and last endemic animals setting | 1 |
Island colonization insularity or mainstream? | 15 |
Putting the colonization of Cyprus into context | 23 |
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Aceramic Aceramic Neolithic Aetokremnos agriculture Anatolia animals appear Archaeology areas artefacts assemblages Bar-Yosef blades bones Brun buildings Byblos Cauvin chert chipped stone coast colonization communities context continuity core culture Cypriot Cyprus dates demonstrate designs domestic earlier earliest early East elements et al evidence example Excavations farming Figure figurines Göbekli Tepe groups Guilaine Hagolan human important incised indicate island Khirokitia late later Levant Levantine lines located mainland material McCartney Mediterranean millennium nature Néolithique occupation origin Oxford patterns pebbles Peltenburg period phase pieces pigs plant Pleistocene possible pottery PPNA PPNB Prehistory present Press production recent region remains Report represent seals settlement shaped Shillourokambos shows similar Simmons social societies sources southern species stage stone suggest Survey Table Tell Tenta tion tradition University Vigne village wild