More than 40years ago Kent Flannery coined the term Broad Spectrum Revolution (BSR) in
reference to a broadening of the subsistence base of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers in …

New methods permit archaeologists to distinguish between wild boar and domestic pigs with
greater confidence than has been hitherto possible. Metrical methods are the most …

The emerging picture of plant and animal domestication and agricultural origins in the Near
East is dramatically different from that drawn 16 years ago in a landmark article by Bar-Yosef …

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

Over the past 11,000 years humans have brought a wide variety of animals under
domestication. Domestic animals belong to all Linnaean animal classes—mammals, birds …

The scale and nature of early cultivation are topics that have received relatively limited
attention in research on the origins of agriculture. In Southwest Asia, one the earliest centers …

One of humanity's most important milestones was the transition from hunting and gathering
to food production and permanent village life. This Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the …

Recent archaeological investigations on Cyprus have unveiled unsuspected Late Glacial
and Early Holocene (twelfth–tenth millennia cal BP) pieces of the island's human history …

Climatic change, population pressure, and environmental stress are frequently cited as
major catalysts for the adoption of agriculture. The role of these factors immediately prior to …

The only critical guide to the theory and method of Mesopotamian archaeology, this
innovative volume evaluates the theories, methods, approaches and history of …