LEADER 02388nam 22004453a 450 001 9910477305303321 005 20211214195610.0 010 $a9781789255294 010 $a1789255295 035 $a(CKB)5490000000052396 035 $a(ScCtBLL)38fa6de2-72a0-42a7-ad37-79f010a39fef 035 $a(oapen)doab35303 035 $a(EXLCZ)995490000000052396 100 $a20211214i20202020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent : $eExcavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan /$fKamal Rasheed Raheem, Wendy Matthews, Amy Richardson, Roger Matthews 210 $cOxbow Books$d2020 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cOxbow Books,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 330 $aThe Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within the scope of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, excavations have been conducted since 2012 at two Early Neolithic sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq: Bestansur and Shimshara. Bestansur represents an early stage in the transition to sedentary, farming life, where the inhabitants pursued a mixed strategy of hunting, foraging, herding and cultivating, maximizing the new opportunities afforded by the warmer, wetter climate of the Early Holocene. They also constructed substantial buildings of mudbrick, including a major building with a minimum of 65 human individuals, mainly infants, buried under its floor in association with hundreds of beads. These human remains provide new insights into mortuary practices, demography, diet and disease. 606 $aSocial Science / Archaeology$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory / Ancient$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial sciences 615 7$aSocial Science / Archaeology 615 7$aHistory / Ancient 615 0$aSocial sciences. 702 $aRaheem$b Kamal Rasheed 702 $aMatthews$b Wendy 702 $aRichardson$b Amy 702 $aMatthews$b Roger 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910477305303321 996 $aThe Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent$92564401 997 $aUNINA