Further reading

Asouti, E. and D.Q. Fuller. ‘A contextual approach to the emergence of agriculture in Southwest Asia: reconstructing early Neolithic plant-food production.' Current Anthropology, 54 (2013), 299-345.

Banning, E.B. ‘The Neolithic period: triumphs of architecture, agriculture, and art.' Near Eastern Archaeology, 61 (1998), 188-237.

Barker, G. The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers Become Farmers? Oxford University Press, 2006.

Bar-Yosef, O. ‘The Natufian culture in the Levant: threshold to the origins of agriculture.' Evolutionary Anthropology, 6 (1998), 159-77.

Bar-Yosef, O. and R. Meadow. ‘The origins of agriculture in the Near East.' In T.D. Price and A.B. Gebauer (eds.), Last Hunters, First Farmers: New Perspectives on the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1995.39-94.

Bellwood, P. First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. Binford, L. ‘Post Pleistocene adaptations.' In S. Binford and L. Binford (eds.), New Perspectives in Archaeology. Chicago: Aldine Press, 1968. 313-41.

Braidwood, R. ‘The agricultural revolution.' Scientific American, 203 (1960), 130-41.

Cauvin, J. The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture, trans. T. Watkins. Cambridge University Press, 2000 [1994].

Colledge, S. and J. Conolly (eds.). The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in SouthwestAsia and Europe. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2007.

Colledge, S., J. Conolly, K. Dobney, K. Manning, and S. Shennan (eds.). The Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in SouthwestAsia and Europe. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2013.

Diamond, J. and P. Bellwood. ‘Farmers and their languages: the first expansions.' Science, 300 (2003), 597-603.

Flannery, K. ‘Origins and ecological effects of early domestication in Iran and the Near East.' In P.

Garfinkel, Y. Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.

Henry, D. From Foraging to Agriculture: The Levant at the End of the Ice Age. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.

Hodder, I. ‘Symbolism and the origins of agriculture in the Near East.' Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 11 (2001), 107-12.

Kuijt, I. (ed.). Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2000.

McCarter, S.F. Neolithic. New York and London: Routledge, 2007.

Mellaart, J. The Neolithic of the Near East. London: Thames & Hudson, 1975.

Ozdogan, M. and N. Basgelen (eds.). Neolithic in Turkey: The Cradle of Civilization. Istanbul: Arkeoloji Sanat Yayinlari, 1999.

Price, T.D. and O. Bar-Yosef (eds.). The origins of agriculture: new data, new ideas. Special edition of Current Anthropology, 52, Supplement 4 (2011).

Simmons, A. The Neolithic Revolution in the Near East: Transforming the Human Landscape. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.

Simmons, A., I. Kohler-Rollefson, G. Rollefson, R. Mandel, and Z. Kafafi. ‘ 'Ain Ghazal: a major Neolithic settlement in central Jordan.' Science, 240 (1988), 35-9.

Smith, B.D. The Emergence of Agriculture. New York: Scientific American Library, 1995.

Twiss, K. ‘Transformations in an early agricultural society: feasting in the southern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic.' Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 27 (2008), 418-42.

Vigne, J.D., F. Briois, A. Zazzo, et al. ‘First wave of cultivators spread to Cyprus at least 10,600 y ago.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (2012), 8445-9.

Watkins, T. ‘New light on Neolithic revolution in South-west Asia.' Antiquity, 84 (2010), 621-34.

Wilson, P. The Domestication of the Human Species. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.

Zeder, M. ‘Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean basin: origins, diffusion, and impact.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (2008), 11597-604.

‘The origins of agriculture in the Near East.' Current Anthropology, 52, Supplement 4 (2011), S221-35.