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List of plates | |
List of figures | |
Translator's note | |
Foreword | |
Preface | |
Chronological table | |
Introduction | |
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 | |
Conclusion | |
Postscript | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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