Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia: An Environmental-Archaeological StudyUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1 sept. 2011 - 328 pages In Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia, archaeologist David R. Harris addresses questions of when, how, and why agriculture and settled village life began east of the Caspian Sea. The book describes and assesses evidence from archaeological investigations in Turkmenistan and adjacent parts of Iran, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan in relation to present and past environmental conditions and genetic and archaeological data on the ancestry of the crops and domestic animals of the Neolithic period. It includes accounts of previous research on the prehistoric archaeology of the region and reports the results of a recent environmental-archaeological project undertaken by British, Russian, and Turkmen archaeologists in Turkmenistan, principally at the early Neolithic site of Jeitun (Djeitun) on the southern edge of the Karakum desert. |
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Prehistoric Archaeology | 41 |
Neolithic Crop Plants and Domestic Animals | 71 |
ArchaeologicalEnvironmental Investigations in Turkmenistan 198998 | 93 |
Synthesis and Conclusions | 209 |
Appendices | 237 |
Bibliography | 269 |
Author Note | 297 |
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