The Neolithic of the near East
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3968144 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Denise Schmandt‐besserat |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 593 |
| Publication date | 1977-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Neolithic of the Near East, James Mellaart, 1975 |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/598665 |
| OpenAlex | W2156878207 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
This critique of The Neolithic of the Near East includes five major sections which will be considered in the following sequence: 1) background and author's purpose, 2) previous areal syntheses, 3) problems of organization and method, 4) summary of salient points, and 5) evaluation. James Mellaart, Lecturer in Anatolian Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology in the University of London, has written the best summary presently available on the archeological materials of the Neolithic of the Near East up to 1975. The book focuses on the development of the Food Producing Revolution during the chronological period from approximately 15,0005200 B.C. The spatial range of this Greater Near East is from the Iron Gates of the southern Balkans eastward into the Turkestan Plain of northern Afghanistan, and from the Black Sea and Azerbaijan southward through Mesopotamia into southwestern Iran and into the Levant and Egyptian Fayum. Encompassed within is the area 30 -45 0 North latitude by 25 0650 East longitude, hence I shall use the term Greater Near East to indicate the total area under consideration. The author states that his purpose in writing this book was
Ancient history · Archaeology · Geography · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History
Tell Rifa'at 1977
The origin of ancient pottery production
Physical and mineralogical properties of experimentally heated chaff-tempered mud bricks
Heated mud bricks in submerged and coastal Southern Levant Pre-Pottery Neolithic C and Late Pottery Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic settlements
Crops and Culture
Current Research and New Evidence for the Neolithization Process in Western Turkey
Resilience and Redundance
The Neolithic–Chalcolithic sequence in the SW Anatolian Lakes Region
Between Foraging and Farming
Articulate Bodies
Ritual Burial of Cultic Objects
Animal Figurines from Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Dancing and the Beginning of Art Scenes in the Early Village Communities of the Near East and Southeast Europe
Porridge and Pot, Bread and Oven
Creations of Mind
Figured Lifeworlds and Depositional Practices at Çatalhöyük
A Neolithic Painted Skull from Tell Abu Hureyra, Northern Syria
The goddess and the academy
Beyond the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B interaction sphere
The Northern Iranian Central Plateau at the End of the Pleistocene and Early Holocene
The Upper Paleolithic period in the Levant
Supra-Regional Networks in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia
The origins of sedentism and farming communities in the Levant
The chalcolithic period in the Levant
Cultures of the eighth and seventh millennia BP in the southern Levant
The Importance of Chert in Central Anatolia
Copper and Complexity
Microbotanical Evidence for Cereals in Neolithic Levels at Tel Teo and Yiftahel in The Galilee, Israel
Stable Isotope Evidence of Diet at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Remedy for an 8500 year-old plastered human skull from Kfar Hahoresh, Israel
The source of obsidian artefacts found at East Chia Sabz, Western Iran
Ideology and the Harappan civilization
Nimrods, piscators, pluckers, and planters
People and Space in Early Agricultural Villages
Early neolithic exploitation patterns in the Levant
The Fall of the House of Flint”
Excavations at Gritille, Turkey
Southern Levantine Pier Houses
The Aceramic Neolithic of the Southern Levant
Daughters of isis, daughters of demeter
The Halaf Environment and Human Activities in the Khabur Drainage, Syria
Netiv Hagdud
The Beginnings of Pyrotechnology, Part II
Women in States
Materialist Approaches in Prehistory
Pattern and Process in the Earliest Colonization of the Mediterranean Islands
Jeitun
Social dimensions in the architecture of Neolithic Çatalhöyük
The Early Holocene occupation of north-central Anatolia between 10,000 and 6,000 BC cal
Settlement archaeology
Agricultural origins in the Near East
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Colonization and continuity in the early prehistory of Cyprus
The evolution of simplicity
Traditions of archeological research in the near east
Gatherer-hunter to farmer
The nature of the beast
Oral Technologies
River stories
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Revising the Broad Spectrum Revolution
Scalar differences
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |