The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent : : Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan / / Kamal Rasheed Raheem, Wendy Matthews, Amy Richardson, Roger Matthews

• Pubblicazione: Oxbow Books, 2020; [s.l.] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Social Science / Archaeology; History / Ancient; Social sciences
• Persona (resp. second.): RaheemKamal Rasheed; MatthewsWendy; RichardsonAmy; MatthewsRoger
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
• ISBN: 9781789255294; 1789255295
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910477305303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II