Interaction before Agriculture
Exchanging Material and Sharing Knowledge in the Final Pleistocene Levant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6044191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tobias Richter (0000-0002-0467-9044), Andrew Garrard (0000-0001-8345-0733, University College London), Andrew N Garrard, Samantha Allock (University of Plymouth), L Maher (0000-0002-9473-4229, Leverhulme Trust), Lisa A Maher |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-114 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774311000060 |
| OpenAlex | W2164047441 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 65 |
This article discusses social interaction in the Epipalaeolithic of southwest Asia. Discussions of contact, social relationships and social organization have primarily focused on the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and are often considered to represent typical hallmarks of emergent farming societies. The hunter-gatherers of the final Pleistocene, in particular those of the Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic, have more rarely been the focus of such discussions. In this article we consider evidence for interaction from the Azraq Basin of eastern Jordan, to question the uniqueness of the Neolithic evidence for interaction. We argue that interaction between differently-constituted groups can be traced within the Early Epipalaeolithic of the southern Levant, suggesting that it is of far greater antiquity than previously considered
Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze Age · Ethnology · Geography · Middle East · Pleistocene · Pottery · Prehistory · Social complexity · Social relation · Sociology · Southern Levant · Structural basin · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology
Acquisitiveness, Asceticism, Affluence, and the Anthropocene
A landscape of preservation
The origins of nomadic pastoralism in the eastern Jordanian steppe
Terminology, process and change
Paleoclimatic and archeological implications of Pleistocene and Holocene environments in Azraq, Jordan
Faunal turnover in the Azraq Basin, eastern Jordan 28,000 to 9000 cal yr BP, signalling climate change and human impact
Local Technological Traditions in the Early and Middle Epipaleolithic of Ein Gev Area
West Asia
Near East (Including Anatolia)
Middle East
Hunter-Gatherer Home-Making? Building Landscape and Community in the Epipaleolithic
A Unique Human-Fox Burial from a Pre-Natufian Cemetery in the Levant (Jordan)
Ki̇şi̇sel Süs Eşyalari Ki̇mli̇kler Hakkinda Ne Söyler? Metodoloji̇k Yaklaşimlar Ve Anadolu Ve Levant’tan Arkeoloji̇k Örnekler
What if Göbekli Tepe was an Open School? A Thought-Provoking Approach to the Genesis of Cultural Revolution
Leaving home
Modifying the marsh
Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands
From foraging to farming in the southern Levant
Near East (Including Anatolia)
Near East (Including Anatolia)
Middle East
The earliest transverse grooved stones of Eurasia
Beyond the Jordan
The Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic as the pivotal transformation of human history
From the Epipalaeolithic into the earliest Neolithic (PPNA) in the South Levant
Dynamique du climat et du peuplement du Caucase Nord-Central au tournant du Pléistocène et de l’Holocène
Sheltered by reeds and settled on sedges
Was culture cumulative in the Palaeolithic
Revisiting Rolling stones
Wedded to wetlands
New insights into the Epipaleolithic of western Central Asia
The stone industry transformations at the edge of Pleistocene and Holocene
Modeling foraging ranges and spatial organization of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers in the southern Levant – A least-cost GIS approach
Occupying wide open spaces? Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherer activities in the Eastern Levant
“Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue…” Ornaments in the Levantine Early Neolithic
Culturing the body in the context of the neolithisation of the southern Levant
From prehistoric shores
Networks of Knowledge, Materials, and Practice in the Neolithic Zagros
The Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic as the pivotal transformation of human history
Persistent Place-Making in Prehistory
What Was Brewing in the Natufian? An Archaeological Assessment of Brewing Technology in the Epipaleolithic
Aşıklı Höyük
The Devil's Dung? Money as a mechanism of generalized reciprocity in human societies
Sea shells on the riverside
Persistent and ephemeral places in the Early Epipaleolithic in the Wadi al-Hasa region of the western highlands of Jordan
Late Pleistocene eastern Levant
New Epipalaeolithic assemblages from the middle Euphrates and the implications for technological and settlement trends in the northeastern Levant
Changing lifestyles in the northern Levant
The environmental setting of Epipalaeolithic aggregation site Kharaneh IV
Material Movement in the Near Eastern Epipalaeolithic
Technological Change and Economy in the Epipalaeolithic
Homes for Hunters? Exploring the Concept of Home at Hunter-Gatherer Sites in Upper Paleolithic Europe and Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia
Variation in the development of Neolithic societies atop the Central Anatolian Plateau
Diagnostic impact fractures and micro-wear analysis
Lithic technology, chronology, and marine shells from Wadi Aghar, southern Jordan, and Initial Upper Paleolithic behaviors in the southern inland Levant
Intensification and sedentism in the terminal Pleistocene Natufian sequence of el-Wad Terrace (Israel)
Early geometric microlith technology in Central Asia
Broad spectrum or specialised activity? Birds and tortoises at the Epipalaeolithic site of Wadi Jilat 22 in the eastern Jordan steppe
The long-distance exchange of amazonite and increasing social complexity in the Sudanese Neolithic
The flow of ideas
The Sounds of Pounding
Life, death, and the destruction of architecture
Meat outside the freezer
Close companions
The Pre-Natufian Epipaleolithic
| Unique citing works | 65 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,33 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 58 |