The birth of the Gods and the origins of agriculture /
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| Author / Creator: | Cauvin, Jacques. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2000. |
| Description: | xvii, 259 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New studies in archaeology. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4312049 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. The Origins of Agriculture
- 1. Natural environment and human cultures on the eve of the Neolithic
- 2. The first pre-agricultural villages: the Natufians
- 3. The revolution in symbols and the origins of Neolithic religion
- 4. The first farmers: socio-cultural context
- 5. The first farmers: strategies of subsistence
- 6. Agriculture, demography, society: taking stock
- 7. The Neolithic Revolution: a transformation of the mind
- Part II. The Beginnings of Neolithic Diffusion
- 8. Geographical and chronological framework for the first stages of diffusion
- 9. The birth of a culture in the northern Levant and the neolithisation of eastern Anatolia
- 10. Diffusion in the central and southern Levant
- 11. The elements of symbolism in the southern Levant
- 12. The dynamics of a dominant culture
- Part III. The Great Exodus
- 13. The problem of Neolithic diffusion
- 14. The achievement of neolithisation in the 'Levantine core'
- 15. The arrival of farmers on the Levantine coast and in Cyprus
- 16. The first villagers push east: the eastern Jezirah and the Syrian desert
- 17. Pastoral nomadism
- 18. Hypotheses for the spread of farming
- 19. Postscript
