The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of AgricultureCambridge University Press, 27/07/2000 - 259 من الصفحات This innovative study analyses the great cultural and economic changes occurring 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. Challenging the orthodox, materialist interpretations, and drawing on French theories of mentalities, Jacques Cauvin argues that the Neolithic revolution must be understood as an intellectual transformation, revealing itself above all in symbolic activities. He describes the emergence of the first agricultural villages, pastoralism and nomadism, and the diffusion of Neolithic ideas and practice to the region's periphery. |
المحتوى
Introduction I | 1 |
Natural environment and human cultures on the eve of the Neolithic II | 11 |
The Revolution in Symbols and the origins of Neolithic religion | 22 |
the sociocultural context | 34 |
strategies of subsistence | 51 |
an assessment | 62 |
A geographical and chronological framework for the first stages | 75 |
IO Diffusion into the central and southern Levant | 96 |
The dynamics of a dominant culture | 121 |
The problem of diffusion in the Neolithic | 137 |
The arrival of farmers on the Mediterranean littoral and in Cyprus | 154 |
Pastoral nomadism | 189 |
Conclusion | 207 |
Notes | 221 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abu Hureyra aceramic agriculture Ain Ghazal already animal appear archaeology architecture arrow-heads Aşıklı Aswad Aurenche baked clay Bar-Yosef Beidha blades bone Bouqras building bull Byblos Byblos points Cafer Höyük Çatalhöyük Cauvin Çayönü central Anatolia cultivation culture Cyprus Damascus diffusion domesticated early PPNB eastern economy eighth millennium einkorn environment excavations existed final PPNB flint goats Halula herding Höyük human hunter-gatherers hunting Jacques Cauvin Jerf el Ahmar Jericho Jezirah Jordan valley Kebaran Khiamian Khirokitia Kowm late PPNB Levantine material Mediterranean middle Euphrates middle PPNB millennium BC Mureybet Nahal Hemar Natufian Neolithic Revolution neolithisation Netiv Hagdud Nevalı Çori ninth millennium northern oasis obsidian origin Palaeolithic phase plaster population pottery PPNA prehistoric present Ramad rectangular region remains round houses sanctuaries sedentary seems settlement seventh millennium Shillourokambos Sinjar skulls southern Levant species Stordeur subsistence Sultanian symbolic Syria Taurus tion tradition villages wild cereals Zagros zone