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Neolithic revolution : new perspectives on southwest Asia in light of recent discoveries on Cyprus / edited by Edgar Peltenburg and Alexander Wasse.
Penn Museum Library GN776.32.C93 N46 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Levant supplementary series ; v. 1.
- Levant supplementary series ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neolithic period--Cyprus--Congresses.
- Neolithic period.
- Neolithic period--Middle East--Congresses.
- Antiquities.
- Cyprus--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Cyprus.
- Middle East--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Middle East.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.
- Other Title:
- New perspectives on southwest Asia in light of recent discoveries on Cyprus
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Book Co. [distributor], [2004]
- Contents:
- Introduction: a revised Cypriot prehistory and some implications for the study of the Neolithic / Edgar Peltenburg xi
- 1 Bitter hippos of Cyprus: the island's first occupants and last endemic animals
- setting the stage for colonization / Alan H. Simmons 1
- 2 Island colonization, insularity or mainstream? / Bill Finlayson 15
- 3 Putting the colonization of Cyprus into context / Trevor Watkins 23
- 4 The domestic status of the early Neolithic fauna of Cyprus: a view from the mainland / Liora Kolska Horwitz, Eitan Tchernov, Hitomi Hongo 35
- 5 Reappraisal of the archaeobotanical evidence for the emergence and dispersal of the 'founder crops' / Sue Colledge 49
- 6 Abu Hureyra and the development of farming in western Asia: directions for future research / A. M. T. Moore 61
- 7 Social space in early sedentary communities of Southwest Asia and Cyprus / Edgar Peltenburg 71
- 8 The emergence of the Mediterranean Fishing Village in the Levant and the anomaly of Neolithic Cyprus / Ehud Galili, Avi Gopher, Baruch Rosen, Liora Kolska Horwitz 91
- 9 Cypriot Neolithic chipped stone industries and the progress of regionalization / Carole McCartney 103
- 10 Hill and vale: understanding prehistoric lithic use in Cyprus / Sarah Tyrrell Stewart 123
- 11 Flint workshops of the Southern Beqa` valley (Lebanon): preliminary results from Qar`oun / Maya Haidar-Boustani 133
- 12 Geometric patterns on pebbles: early identity symbols? / Anna Eirikh-Rose 145
- 13 Tools and toys or traces of trade: the problem of the enigmatic incised objects from Cyprus and the Levant / Sarah Tyrrell Stewart, David W. Rupp 163
- 14 "Neolithique" and "Eneolithique" Byblos in Southern Levantine context / Yosef Garfinkel 175.
- Notes:
- "Papers from a conference organized by the Council for British Research in the Levant in collaboration with the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 20th to 23rd September 2001, Drousha Village, Cyprus."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1842171321
- OCLC:
- 55968529
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