Demography and storage systems during the southern levantine neolithic demographic transition

The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 287-313

  Kuijt, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Food Storage; Natufian; Pottery Neolithic Periods

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650352566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8539-0_11     Document Type: Chapter

References (55)

1. Akkermans, P.M.M.G., R. Cappers, C. Cavallo, O. Nieuwenhuyse, B. Nilhhamn, and I. N. Otte. 2006 Investigating the Early Pottery Neolithic of Northern Syria: New Evidence from Tell Sabi Abyad. American Journal of Archaeology. 110(1): 123-155.
2. Bandy, M., S., 2004 New World Settlement Evidence for a Two-Stage Neolithic Demographic Transition. Current Anthropology 46(1): 109-115.
3. Banning, E. B. 2004 Changes in the Spatial Organization of Transjordanian Settlements from Middle PPNB to Late Neolithic. In: Central Settlements in Neolithic Jordan, edited by H. D. Bienert, H. G. K. Gebel and R. Neef. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment. Volume 5, pp. 215-232. Ex oriente, Berlin.
4. Banning, E. B. 1998 The Neolithic Period: Triumphs of Architecture, Agriculture, and Art. Near Eastern Archaeolog 61(4):188-237.
5. Banning, E. B. and B. F. Byrd 1987 Houses and Changing Residential Unit: Domestic Architecture at PPNB ain Ghazal. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 53: 309-325.
6. Banning, E. B. and B. F. Byrd 1989 Renovations and the Changing Residential Unit at ain Ghazal, Jordan. In: Households and Communities. Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Chacmool Conference, edited by S. MacEachern, D. Archer., and R. D. Garvin. pp. 525-533. University of Calgary, Calgary.
7. Banning, E. B., Rahimi, D. and Siggers. J., 1994 The Late Neolithic of the southern Levant: Hiatus, settlement shift, observer bias? The perspective from Wadi Ziqlab. Paĺeorient 20(2) 151-164.
8. Bar-Yosef, O. 1998 The Natufian Culture in the Levant, Threshold to the Origins of Agriculture. Evolutionary Anthropology 6: 159-177.
9. Bar-Yosef, O., and Gopher, A. 1997 An Early Neolithic Village in the Jordan Valley. Part I: The Archaeology of Netiv Hagdud, American School of Prehistoric Research, Peabody Museum, Cambridge.
10. Bar-Yosef, O., and R. H. Meadow 1995 The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East. In Last Hunters-First Farmers: New Perspectives on the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture, edited by T. D. Price and A. B. Gebauer, pp. 39-94. School of American Research Press: Santa Fe.
11. Bellwood, P., S., 2005 First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies. Blackwell: Oxford.
12. Berner, M., and M. Schultz 2004 Demographic and Taphonomic Aspects of the Seketons from the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Population from Basta, Jordan. In: Central Settlements in Neolithic Jordan, edited by H. D. Bienert, H. G. K. Gebel and R. Neef. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment. Volume 5, pp. 241-258. Ex oriente, Berlin.
13. Bienert, H-D., M. Bonogofsky., H-G. Gebel., I. Kuijt., and G. Rollefson 2004 Where are the Dead? In: Central Settlements in Neolithic Jordan, edited by H. D. Bienert, H. G. K. Gebel and R. Neef. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment. Volume 5, pp. 157-177. Ex oriente, Berlin.
14. Bocquet-Appel, J., P.,2002 Paeloanthropological Traces of a Neolithic Demographic Transition. Current Anthropology 43: 637-650.
15. Bocquet-Appel, J., P., and S., Naji 2006 Testing the Hypothesis of a Worldwide Neolithic Demographic Transition: Corroboration from American Cemeteries. Current Anthropology 47: 341-365.
16. Cessford, C. 2005 Estimating the Neolithic population of Ç atalhöyük, in Hodder, I (ed) Inhabiting Ç atalhöyük: Reports from the 1995-99 seasons. BIAA/McDonald Institute, 325-28.
17. Eshed, V., Gopher, A., Gage, T., B., Hershkovitz, I. 2004 Has the Transition to Agriculture Reshaped the Demographic Structure of Prehistoric Populations? New Evidence from the Levant. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 124: 315-329.
18. Finlayson, B., Kuijt, I., Arpin, T., Chesson, M., Dennis, S., Goodale, N., Kadowaki, S. Maher, S. Smith, S., Schurr, M., and McKay, J. 2003 Dhra' Excavation Project, 2002 Interim Report. Levant 25:1-38.
19. Galili, E., Weinstein-Evron, M., Hershkovitz, I., Gopher, A., Kislev, M., Lernau, O., Kolska- Horwitz, L., and Lernau, L. 1993 Atlit-Yam: A Prehistoric Site on the Sea Floor off the Israeli Coast. Journal of Field Archaeology 20: 133-157.
20. Garfinkel, Y. and M. A. Miller 2002 Shaar Hagolan 1: Neolithic Art in Context. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
21. Garfinkel, Y. 1987 Yiftahel: A Neolithic Village from the Seventh Millennium B.C. in Lower Galilee, Israel. Journal of Field Archaeology 14: 199-212.
22. Gebel, H. G. 2004 Demographic and Taphonomic Aspects of the Skeletons from the Late Pre- Pottery Neolithic B Population from Basta, Jordan. In: Central Settlements in Neolithic Jordan, edited by H. D. Bienert, H. G. K. Gebel and R. Neef, Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment. Volume 5, pp. 241-258. Ex oriente, Berlin.
23. Gopher, A. and R. Gophna 1993 Cultures of the Eighth and Seventh Millennia BP in the Southern Levant: A Review for the 1990's. Journal of World Prehistory 7(3): 297-253.
24. Hassan, F. A. 1981 Demographic Archaeology. Academic Press: New York.
25. Hayden, B. 1981 Research and development in the stone age: Technological transitions among hunter/gatherers. Current Anthropology 2: 519-548.
26. Hayden, B. 1982 Comment on Testart, A. The Significance of Food Storage among Hunter- Gatherers: Residence Patterns, Population Densities and Social Inequalities. Current Anthropology 23: 531.
27. Henry, D. O. 2002 Models of Agricultural Origins and Proxy Measures of Prehistoric Demographics. In The Dawn of Farming in the Near East, edited by R. T. J. Cappers and S. Bottema. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 6. pg. 15-26. Berlin: Ex oriente.
28. Hershkovitz, I. and A. Gopher 1990 Paleodemography, Burial Customs, and Food-Producing Economy at the Beginning of the Holocene: A Perspective from the Southern Levant. Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 23: 9-48.
29. Ingold, T. 1982 Comment on Testart, A. The Significance of Food Storage among Hunter- Gatherers: Residence Patterns, Population Densities and Social Inequalities. Current Anthropology 23: 531-2.
30. Ingold, T. 1983 The Significance of Storage in Hunting Societies. Man, New Series, 18(3): 553-571.
31. Kenyon, K. M. 1981 Excavations at Jericho. Vol. III: The Architecture and Stratigraphy of the Tell Vol. III. London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.
32. Kramer, C. 1982 Village Ethnoarchaeology. New York: Academic Press.
33. Kuijt, I. 2000 People and Space in Early Agricultural Villages: Exploring Daily Lives, Community Size and Architecture in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 19: 75-102.
34. Kuijt, I. 2001 Meaningful Masks: Place, Death, and the Transmission of Social Memory in Early Agricultural Communities of the Near Eastern Pre-Pottery Neolithic. In Social Memory, Identity, and Death: Intradisciplinary Perspectives on Mortuary Rituals, edited by M. S. Chesson. American Anthropological Association, Archaeology Division, Vol 10, pp. 80-99. American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.
35. Kuijt, I. 2004 Reflections on Ritual and the Transmission of Authority in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant. In Magic Practices and Ritual in the Near Eastern Neolithic: Studies of Production, Subsistence and Environment, Vol. 8, edited by H.G. K. Gebel, B.D. Hermansen & C. Hoffmann. Jensen, pp. 81-88, Ex oriente, Berlin.
36. Kuijt, I., and N. Goring-Morris 2002 Foraging, Farming, and Social Complexity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A Review and Synthesis. Journal of World Prehistory 16(4): 361-440.
37. Kuijt, I and B. Finlayson 2001 The 2001 Excavation Season at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Period Settlement of Dhra', Jordan: Preliminary results. Neo-Lithics: Southwest Asian Neolithic Research. 2(1): 12-15.
38. Mahasneh, H. M. 1997 The 1995 Season at the Neolithic Site of Es-Sifiya, Wadi Mujib, Jordan. In The Prehistory of Jordan II. Perspectives from 1997, edited by Gebel, H. G. K., Kafafi, Z., and Rollefson, G. O., Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 4, Berlin, pp. 203-213.
39. Mahasneh, H. M., and Gebel, H. G. K. 1999 Geometric Objects from LPPNB Es-Sifiya, Wadi Mujib, Jordan. Paĺeorient 24(2): 105-110.
40. Mahasneh, H., and Bienert, H. D. 2000 Unfolding the Earliest Pages of Sedentism: The Pre-Pottery Neolithic Settlement of Es-Sifiya in Southern Jordan. In At the Crossroads: Essays on the Archaeology, History and Current Affairs of the Middle East, edited by Bienert, H. D., and Müller-Neuhof, B. German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman, Amman, pp. 1-14.
41. Nissen, H.J., M. Muheisen and H. G. Gebel 1987 Report on the First Two Seasons of Excavation at Basta. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 31: 79-119.
42. Read, D. W., and S. A., Le Blanc. 2003 Population Growth, Carrying Capacity, and Conflict. Current Anthropology 44(1): 59-85.
43. Rollefson, G. O. 1997 Changes in Architecture and Social Organization at ain Ghazal. In The Prehistory of Jordan II, Perspectives from 1997. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence and Environment 4, edited by Gebel, H. G. K., Kafifi, Z., and Rollefson, G. O. Ex Oriente, Berlin, pp. 287-307.
44. Rollefson, G. O. 1987 Local and Regional Relations in the Levantine PPN Period: Ain Ghazal as a Regional Center. In Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan, edited by A. Hadidi, pp. 2-32. Department of Antiquities of Jordan: Amman.
45. Rollefson, G. O. 1998 The Aceramic Neolithic of Jordan. In The Prehistoric Archaeology of Jordan, BAR International Series 705, edited by D. A. Henry, pp. 102-126. Archaeopress: Oxford.
46. Rollefson, G. O.1989 The Late Aceramic Neolithic of the Levant: A Synthesis. Paĺeorient 15(1): 168-173.
47. Rollefson, G. O. 2001 The Neolithic Period. In: The Archaeology of Jordan, edited by B.MacDonald, R. Adams, and P. Bienkowski, pp. 67-105. Sheffield Academic Press: Sheffield
48. Rollefson, G. O., A. H. Simmons and Z. Kafafi 1992 Neolithic Cultures at ain Ghazal, Jordan. Journal of Field Archaeology 19: 443-470.
49. Rollefson, G. O. and I. Köhler-Rollefson. 1989 The Collapse of the Early Neolithic Settlements in the Southern Levant. In People and Culture in Change, edited by I. Hershkovitz, pp. 73-89. British Archaeology Review, International Series. 508 Oxford: BAR.
50. Simmons, A. 2000 Villages on the Edge: Regional Settlement Change and the End of the Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic. In, Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation, edited by I. Kuijt, pp. 211-230. Kluwer/Plenum Press, New York
51. Stopp, M., P., 2002 Ethnohistoric Analogues for Storage as an Adaptive Strategy in Northestern Subarctic Prehistory. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 21: 301-328.
52. Testart, A. 1982 The Significance of Food Storage among Hunter-Gatherers: Residence Patterns, Population Densities and Social Inequalities. Current Anthropology 23: 523-538.
53. Van Beek, G. 1982 A Population Estimate for Marib: A Contemporary Tell Village in North Yeman. Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research 248: 61-67.
54. Watson, P. J. 1979 Archaeological Ethnography in Western Iran. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology Vol. 57.Tucson: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
55. Wright, K. 2000. The social origins of cooking and dining in early villages of Western Asia, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 66: 89-121.