Jacques Cauvin (Paris Institut de France)

The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative 2000 study of the great cultural and economic changes in the Near East between 10,000 and 7,000 BC as Palaeolithic societies of hunter-gatherers gave way to village communities of Neolithic food-producers argues that the Neolithic revolution must be understood as an intellectual transformation, revealing itself in symbolic activities.

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Produktdetails

• New Studies in Archaeology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780521039086
• ISBN-10: 0521039088
• Artikelnr.: 23003141

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
List of figures
Translator's note
Foreword
Preface
Chronological table
Introduction
Part I. The Origins of Agriculture: 1. Natural environment and human cultures on the eve of the Neolithic
2. The first pre-agricultural villages: the Natufian
3. The Revolution in symbols and the origins of Neolithic religion
4. The first farmers: the socio-cultural context
5. The first farmers: strategies of subsistence
6. Agriculture, population, society: an assessment
7. The Neolithic Revolution: a transformation of the mind
Part II. The Beginnings of Neolithic Diffusion: 8. A geographical and chronological framework for the first stages of diffusion
9. The birth of a culture in the northern Levant and the neolithisation of Anatolia
10. Diffusion into the central and southern Levant
11. The evidence of symbolism in the southern Levant
12. The dynamics of a dominant culture
Part III. The Great Exodus: 13. The problem of diffusion in the Neolithic
14. The completion of the neolithic process in the 'Levantine nucleus'
15. The arrival of farmers on the Mediterranean littoral and in Cyprus
16. The sedentary peoples push east: the eastern Jezirah and the Syrian desert
17. Pastoral nomadism
18. Hypotheses for the spread of the Neolithic
Conclusion
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index.