The Tcec Project and its Implications for Investigating Neolithisation of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
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The Tcec Project and its Implications for Investigating Neolithisation of the Eastern Fertile Crescent. / Darabi, Hojjat; Richter, Tobias; Mortensen, Peder.
The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent: Revisiting the Hilly Flanks. ed. / Tobias Richter; Hojjat Darabi. Taylor & Francis, 2023. p. 119-137.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Tcec Project and its Implications for Investigating Neolithisation of the Eastern Fertile Crescent
AU - Darabi, Hojjat
AU - Richter, Tobias
AU - Mortensen, Peder
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Tobias Richter and Hojjat Darabi; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The ‘hilly flanks’ of the Zagros in the eastern Fertile Crescent (EFC) were the first area explicitly targeted for investigating the emergence of agriculture and sedentary life starting in the late 1940s. The subsequent concentration of research on the Levant and Anatolia suggested that early Neolithic innovations initially emerged in the western and central areas of the Fertile Crescent. However, renewed work in the central Zagros has once again highlighted this region as a key region in a wider cultural mosaic that witnessed local developments of the neolithisation process. To provide new impetus for investigating the transition from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene in the EFC, we summarise here the results of the joint Iranian-Danish Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change project, as part of which the Neolithic sites of Asiab and Ganj Dareh and the Epipaleolithic cave site of Mar Gurgalan were re-excavated using current methods and techniques. Although both Asiab and Ganj Dareh were previously excavated quite intensively, the lack of publications on both sites and advances in archaeological methods since their initial investigation left many questions unanswered. In addition, the excavation of Mar Gurgalan provided an opportunity to investigate the Epipaleolithic period of the central Zagros in greater detail. In addition to summarising the results of our work at these sites, we will therefore also contextualise them before the background of broader debates concerning the emergence of Neolithic societies in Southwest Asia.
AB - The ‘hilly flanks’ of the Zagros in the eastern Fertile Crescent (EFC) were the first area explicitly targeted for investigating the emergence of agriculture and sedentary life starting in the late 1940s. The subsequent concentration of research on the Levant and Anatolia suggested that early Neolithic innovations initially emerged in the western and central areas of the Fertile Crescent. However, renewed work in the central Zagros has once again highlighted this region as a key region in a wider cultural mosaic that witnessed local developments of the neolithisation process. To provide new impetus for investigating the transition from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene in the EFC, we summarise here the results of the joint Iranian-Danish Tracking Cultural and Environmental Change project, as part of which the Neolithic sites of Asiab and Ganj Dareh and the Epipaleolithic cave site of Mar Gurgalan were re-excavated using current methods and techniques. Although both Asiab and Ganj Dareh were previously excavated quite intensively, the lack of publications on both sites and advances in archaeological methods since their initial investigation left many questions unanswered. In addition, the excavation of Mar Gurgalan provided an opportunity to investigate the Epipaleolithic period of the central Zagros in greater detail. In addition to summarising the results of our work at these sites, we will therefore also contextualise them before the background of broader debates concerning the emergence of Neolithic societies in Southwest Asia.
U2 - 10.4324/9781003335504-10
DO - 10.4324/9781003335504-10
M3 - Book chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85177506474
SN - 9781032371429
SP - 119
EP - 137
BT - The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent
A2 - Richter, Tobias
A2 - Darabi, Hojjat
PB - Taylor & Francis
ER -
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