Over a period of several millennia, from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene (c. 13, 000-7000 BC), communities in south-west Asia developed from hunter-foragers to villager-farmers, bringing fundamental changes in all aspects of life. These Neolithic developments took place over vast chronological and geographical scales, with considerable regional variability in specific trajectories of change. Two vital and consistent aspects of change were a shift from mobile to sedentary lifestyles and increasingly intensive human management of animal and plant resources, leading to full domestication of particular species. Building on earlier campaigns of archaeological investigation, the current phase of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project is designed to explore these issues in one key region, the Zagros zone including central west Iran. Two Early Neolithic mounds were excavated: Sheikh-e Abad in the high Zagros and Jani, in the foothills of the Mesopotamian plains, each comprising up to 10 m depth of deposits indicating occupation spanning over 2000 years, and providing great scope for diachronic and spatial analyses. These two sites make major contributions to knowledge regarding the origins of sedentism and increasing resource management in Southwest Asia, and associated developments in social, cultural and ritual practices in this formative region of human cultural development.

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Contributors
List of Figures
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Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: From Hunter-Forager to Farmer-Herder in the Central Zagros: Research Context, Issues, and Methods
Chapter 2: Contexts of Neolithic Interaction: Geography, Palaeoclimate and Palaeoenvironment of the Central Zagros
Chapter 3: A Survey of Caves and Rock-Shelters in the Kurtavij Region
Chapter 4: Excavations, Surface Collection, and Geophysics at Sheikh-e Abad
Chapter 5: Section Investigations at Jani
Chapter 6: Radiocarbon Dating of Sheikh-e Abad and Jani
Chapter 7: Investigating Early Neolithic Materials, Ecology and Sedentism: Micromorphology and Microstratigraphy
Chapter 8: Biomolecular Investigations of Faecal Biomarkers at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani
Chapter 9: Preliminary Techno-Typological Analysis of Chipped Stone Materials from Sheikh-e Abad
Chapter 10: Post-Neolithic Pottery from Sheikh-e Abad
Chapter 11: Material Networks of the Neolithic at Sheikh-e Abad: Objects of Bone, Stone and Clay
Chapter 12: Zooarchaeology: Preliminary Assessment of the Animal Bones
Chapter 13: Isotope Analysis of Animal Bone
Chapter 14: Human Burials
Chapter 15: The Plant Macrofossil Evidence from Sheikh-e Abad: First Impressions
Chapter 16: Phytolith Indicators of Plant Resource Use at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani
Chapter 17: Molluscs from Sheikh-e Abad and Jani
Chapter 18: Heavy Residue Analysis from Sheikh-e Abad
Chapter 19: Site Management and Local Impact at Sheikh-e Abad
Chapter 20: Networks of Neolithic Engagement
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