1st Edition
The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks
Part 1 General Perspectives
1. Revisiting the Hilly Flanks of Iran: New Data and Shifting Paradigms
Barbara Helwing
2. Emergence and Dispersal of Neolithic Lifeways: From Core to Peripheries
Mehmet Özdoğan
3. From Cradle to Mosaic: The Metaphors We Live By
Trevor Watkins
4. Human Dimensions of the Transition from Hunting-Gathering to Agro-Pastoralism
Frank Hole
Part 2 New Fieldwork/Regional Perspectives
5. Epipalaeolithic Campsite at the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, Nawdarwan Valley, Kermanshah Region, West-Central Zagros Mountains
Saman Heydari-Guran, Rahmat Naderi, Sara Heydari, Nemat Hariri, Samran Asiabani, Faramarz Azizi, Azar Janatimehr, Elham Fotouhi and Elham Ghasidian
6. Environment and Subsistence in the Zagros Epipalaeolithic: New Insights from Palegawra Cave
Eleni Asouti, Ceren Kabukcu, Kate Swinson and Louise Martin
7. The TCEC Project and its Implications for Investigating Neolithisation of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
Hojjat Darabi, Tobias Richter and Peder Mortensen
8. Körtik Tepe in the Origin and Development of the Neolithic in Upper Mesopotamia
Vecihi Özkaya and Abu B. Siddiq
Part 3 Lithic Industries
9. The Earliest Neolithic Lithic Traditions: Evidence from Chogha Golan in the Western Foothills of the Zagros Mountains, Iran
Mohsen Zeidi and Nicholas J. Conard
10. Multiperiod Chipped Stone Assemblages: Preliminary Report on Caves and Rock Shelters in Izeh Plain, Khuzestan, Iran
Mozhgan Jayez
11. Aceramic Neolithic Flaked Stone Assemblages from Trench III, East Chia Sabz, West Iran
Yoshihiro Nishiaki and Hojjat Darabi
Part 4 Ceramics
12. Fars as a Multi-Cultural Zone during the Neolithic Period
Morteza Khanipour and Mohammad Hossein Azizi Kharanaghi
13. Tell Begum, Shaikh Marif and Shakar Tepe: The Late Neolithic Pottery in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan
Takahiro Odaka
14. The Dung Among Other Tempers in Zagros and Mesopotamia Neolithic Pottery
Natalia Petrova
Part 5 Miscellaneous
15. Ganj Dareh Burial Practice and Social Memory
Deborah C. Merrett, Christopher Meiklejohn, David Reich and Ron Pinhasi
16. ‘DomestiSensation’: Current State of Plant Analyses in Göbekli Tepe, Southeast Turkey
Birgül Öğüt with the collaboration of Ferran Antolín
17. Testing the Palaeolithic Harvesting Hypothesis at Ghar-E Boof with Improved Botanical Recovery
Nicholas J. Conard, Christopher E. Miller, Simone Riehl, and Mohsen Zeidi
Biography
Tobias Richter is an associate professor in Near Eastern Archaeology and head of the Centre for the Study of Early Agricultural Societies (CSEAS) at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His work investigates the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in prehistory, focusing on Southwest Asia.
Hojjat Darabi is an associate professor of prehistoric archaeology at Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. For the past 15 years, he has been researching the Neolithic in the Zagros, focusing on the transition from foraging to food producing and the emergence of village life. He (co)-directed excavation at a number of important Neolithic sites in the central Zagros.
