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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The early neolithic of the eastern fertile crescent : excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan / / edited by Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Kamal Rasheed Raheem and Amy Richardson"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Oxford ; ; Philadelphia : , : Oxbow Books, , 2020"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9781789255270"]
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[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (721 pages)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Central zagros archaeological project CZAP Reports ; ; volume 2"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"935.2"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Excavations (Archaeology) - Iraq - Kurdistan"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Neolithic period - Iraq - Kurdistan"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Iraq Antiquities"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Iraq History To 634"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. The Neolithic transition in the Eastern Fertile Crescent: project themes, aims and objectivesRoger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Amy Richardson and Kamal Rasheed Raheem -- 2. Excavation, recording, and sampling methodologiesAmy Richardson, Roger Matthews and Wendy Matthews -- 3. Palaeoclimate and environment of the Iraqi Central ZagrosMatt Bosomworth, Dominik Fleitmann and Maria Rabbani -- 4. Intensive field survey in the Zarzi RegionRoger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Amy Richardson and Kamal Raeuf Aziz -- 5. Fluxgate gradiometry survey at BestansurDavid Thornley -- 6. Geoarchaeological borehole, sediment and microfossil analyses at BestansurChris Green, Rob Batchelor, Maria Rabbani, Alessandro Guaggenti and Wendy Matthews -- 7. Ethnoarchaeological research in Bestansur: insights into vegetation, land-use, animals and animal dungSarah Elliott, Robin Bendrey, Jade Whitlam and Kamal Raeuf Aziz -- 8. ConservationJessica S. Johnson -- 9. Excavations and contextual analyses: BestansurAmy Richardson, Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Sam Walsh, Kamal Raeuf Aziz and Adam Stone -- 10. Excavations and contextual analyses: ShimsharaWendy Matthews, Roger Matthews, Kamal Raeuf Aziz and Amy Richardson -- 11. Radiocarbon dating of Bestansur and shimsharaPascal Flohr, Roger Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Amy "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Richardson and Dominik Fleitmann -- 12. Sustainability of early sedentary agricultural communities: new insights from high-resolution microstratigraphic and micromorphological analysesWendy Matthews -- 13.integrated micro-analysis of the built environment and resource use: high-resolution microscopy and geochemical, mineralogical and biomolecular approachesWendy Matthews, Aroa Garcia-Suarez, Marta Portillo, Chris Speed, Georgia Allistone, Ian Bull, Jessica Godleman and Matthew Almond -- 14. Microarchaeology: the small traces of neolithic activitiesIngrid Iversen -- 15. Animal remains and human-animal-environment relationships at Early Neolithic Bestansur and ShimsharaRobin Bendrey, Wim Van Neer, Salvador Bailon, Juan Rofes, Jeremy Herman, Mel Morlin and Tom Moore -- 16. Early Neolithic animal management and ecology: integrated analysis of faecal materialSarah Elliott with contributions from Wendy Matthews and Ian Bull -- 17. Bestansur molluscs: regional context and local activitiesIngrid Iversen -- 18. The charred plant remains from Early Neolithic levels at Bestansur and ShimsharaJade Whitlam, Charlotte Diffey, Amy Bogaard and Mike Charles -- 19. Human remains from Bestansur: demography, diet and healthSam Walsh -- 20. Early Neolithic chipped stone worlds of Bestansur and ShimsharaRoger Matthews, Amy Richardson and Osamu Maeda -- 21. Material culture and networks of Bestansur and Shimshara Amy Richardson -- 22. Ground stone tools and technologiesDavid Mudd -- 23. Public archaeology at BestansurRhi Smith, Othman Fattah, Hero Salih, Hawar Hawas, Mathew Britten and Wendy Matthews -- 24. The Neolithic transition in the eastern Fertile Crescent: thematic synthesis and discussionWendy Matthews, Roger Matthews, Amy Richardson and Kamal Rasheed Raheem -- Bibliography."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","The 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."]