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The Birth of a Concept and the Origins of the Neolithic

A History of Prehistoric Farmers in the Near East

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ID6106906
AuthorsMarc Verhoeven (0009-0003-8100-9372, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume37
Issue1
Pages75-87
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePaléorient (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0153-9345 • E-ISSN: 1957-701X
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/paleo.2011.5439
OpenAlexW2221240744
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited17

Obviously, in the Near East and elsewhere the Neolithic was a period of very important developments, first and foremost the establishment of agriculture and sedentism. However, many of its defining features, such as village life, cultivation of plants and resource management, were already present in the Palaeolithic. This should make us aware of the potential arbitrariness of current typo-chronological categories such as ‘ the Neolithic’. More fundamentally, we need to be critical of the notion of ‘ progress’ and our inclination to create oppositions (e. g. foragers vs. farmers). The Neolithic was not a revolution, but just one among many other important stages in the history of humanity

Aesthetics · Agricultural revolution · Agriculture · Ancient history · Arbitrariness · Archaeology · Art · Biology · Ethnology · Geography · Humanity · Niche construction · Period (music · Political science · Prehistory · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology

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Citation span2013 - 2025 (13)
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