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The birth of the Gods and the origins of agriculture /

0521651352 hb

2271051517 (pbk. : France only)

9780521651356 hb

9782271051516 (pbk. : France only)

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The birth of the Gods and the origins of agriculture /

[Book]

Jacques Cauvin ; translated by Trevor Watkins.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

2000.

xvii, 259 p. :

ill., maps ;

26 cm.

New studies in archaeology

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index.

The origins of agriculture -- Natural environment and human cultures on the eve of the Neolithic -- The first pre-agricultural villages: the Natufian -- The revolution in symbols and the origins of Neolithic religion -- The first farmers: the socio-cultural context -- The first farmers: strategies of subsistence -- Agriculture, population, society: an assessment -- The Neolithic revolution: a transformation of the mind -- The beginnings of Neolithic diffusion -- A geographical and chronological framework for the first stages of diffusion -- The birth of a culture in the northern Levant and the Neolithisation of Anatolia -- Diffusion into the central and southern Levant -- The evidence of symbolism in the southern Levant -- The dynamics of a dominant culture -- The great exodus -- The problem of diffusion in the Neolithic -- The completion of the Neolithic process in the 'Levantine nucleus' -- The arrival of farmers on the Mediterranean littoral and in Cyprus -- The sedentary peoples push east: the eastern Jezirah and the Syrian desert -- Pastoral nomadism -- Hypotheses for the spread of the Neolithic.

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Naissance des divinités, naissance de l'agriculture.

English

Agriculture-- Origin.

Neolithic period-- Middle East.

Religion, Prehistoric-- Middle East.

Middle East, Antiquities.

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Cauvin, Jacques.

Watkins, Trevor,1938-

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