The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences

540 Pages·2008·12.094 MB·English

by  Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, Ofer Bar-Yosef

The Neolithic Demographic Transition
and its Consequences
·
Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel Ofer Bar-Yosef
Editors
The Neolithic
Demographic Transition
and its Consequences
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Editors
Jean-PierreBocquet-Appel OferBar-Yosef
NationalCentreforScientific HarvardUniversity
Research(CNRS) DepartmentofAnthropology
UPR2147 PeabodyMuseum
44ruedeL’AmiralMouchez 11Divinity
75014Paris Cambridge,MA02138
France USA
[email protected] [email protected]
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Contents
PrehistoricDemographyinaTimeofGlobalization .................... 1
Jean-PierreBocquet-AppelandOferBar-Yosef
PartI DemographicandEconomicDimensionsoftheNDT
The Expansions of Farming Societies and the Role of the Neolithic
DemographicTransition ............................................ 13
PeterBellwoodandMarcOxenham
ExplainingtheNeolithicDemographicTransition ...................... 35
Jean-PierreBocquet-Appel
TheSignaloftheNeolithicDemographicTransitionintheLevant ....... 57
EmmaGuerrero,StephanNajiandJean-PierreBocquet-Appel
TheNatureandTimingoftheNeolithicDemographicTransitioninthe
NorthAmericanSouthwest.......................................... 81
TimothyA.KohlerandMattGlaude
The Neolithic Demographic Transition in Mesoamerica? Larger
ImplicationsoftheStrategyofRelativeChronology ....................107
RichardG.Lesure
An Alternative Approach in Tracing Changes in Demographic
Composition .......................................................139
MehmetO¨zdog˘an
Zooarchaeological Aspects of the Neolithic Diet Transition in
the Near East and Europe, and Their Putative Relationships
withtheNeolithicDemographicTransition............................179
Jean-DenisVigne
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ImpactsoftheNeolithicDemographicTransitiononLinearPottery
CultureSettlement .................................................207
Je´roˆmeDubouloz
PartII SettlementandVillagePractices
ARoofOverOne’sHead:DevelopmentsinNearEasternResidential
ArchitectureAcrosstheEpipalaeolithic–NeolithicTransition............239
A.NigelGoring-MorrisandAnnaBelfer-Cohen
Demography and Storage Systems During the Southern Levantine
NeolithicDemographicTransition....................................287
IanKuijt
Population Processes and Their Consequences in Early Neolithic
CentralEurope ....................................................315
StephenShennan
PartIII CommunitySizeandSocialOrganization
GlobalPatternsofEarlyVillageDevelopment .........................333
MatthewBandy
CentralizedCommunities,Population,andSocialComplexityAfter
Sedentarization ....................................................359
RobertD.DrennanandChristianE.Peterson
Charming Lives: Human and Animal Figurines in the Late
Epipaleolithic and Early Neolithic Periods in the Greater Levant
andEasternAnatolia ...............................................387
GaryO.Rollefson
EvaluatingtheEmergenceofEarlyVillagesintheNorthAmerican
SouthwestinLightoftheProposedNeolithicDemographicTransition....417
RichardH.WilshusenandElizabethM.Perry
PartIV PopulationGrowthandHealth
Demographic, Biological and Cultural Aspects of the Neolithic
Revolution:AViewfromtheSouthernLevant.........................441
IsraelHershkovitzandAviGopher
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Implications of the NDT for World Wide Health and Mortality in
Prehistory .........................................................481
MarkNathanCohen
FromHealthtoCivilizationStress?InSearchforTracesofaHealth
TransitionDuringtheEarlyNeolithicinEurope .......................501
UrsulaWittwer-BackofenandNicolasTomo
Index .............................................................539
Contributors
MatthewBandy
CNRS UPR2147, 44 rue de l’Amiral Mouchez, 75014 Paris, France,
[email protected]
OferBarYosef
DepartmentofAnthropology,DivinityAvenve,HarvardUniversity,Cambridge,
MA02138,USA,[email protected]
AnnaBelfer-Cohen
Department of Prehistory, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem,Jerusalem91905,Israel,[email protected]
PeterBellwood
School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University,
CanberraACT0200,Australia,[email protected]
Jean-PierreBocquet-Appel
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UPR2147, 44, rue de
l’AmiralMouchez–75014Paris,France,[email protected]
MarkNathanCohen
DepartmentofAnthropology,SUNYatPlattsburgh,101BroadSt,Plattsburgh,NY
12901,USA,[email protected],[email protected]
RobertD.Drennan
DepartmentofAnthropology,UniversityofPittsburgh,Pittsburgh,PA15260,USA,
[email protected]
Je´roˆmeDubouloz
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 7041, European
Protohistory,Rene´ Ginouve`s CenterforArchaeology andEthnology (MAE),2
alle´edel’Universite´,92023Nanterre,France,[email protected]
MattGlaude
Department of Anthropology, WSU, Pullman, Crow Canyon Archaeological
Center,SantaFeInstitute,Pullman,WA99164,USA,[email protected]
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AviGopher
TheSoniaandMarcoNadlerInstituteofArchaeology,TelAvivUniversity,Tel
Aviv,Israel,[email protected]
A.NigelGoring-Morris
Department of Prehistory, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem,Jerusalem91905,Israel,[email protected]
EmmaGuerrero
Seminari d’Arqueologia Prehisto`rica del Pro`xim Orient –SAPPO, Universitat
Auto`nomadeBarcelona,Barcelona,Spain,[email protected]
IsraelHershkovitz
Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel
Aviv University, The Tassia and Dr. Joseph Meychan Chair of the History and
PhilosophyofMedicine,TelAviv,Israel,[email protected]
TimothyA.Kohler
Department of Anthropology, WSU, Pullman, WA 99164-4910, USA, Crow
CanyonArchaeologicalCenter,SantaFeInstitute,[email protected]
IanKuijt
Department of Anthropology, The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
46556,USA,[email protected]
RichardG.Lesure
UCLADepartmentofAnthropology,341HainesHall-Box951553,LosAngeles,
CA90095-1553,USA,[email protected]
StephanNaji
CNRS UPR2147, 44 rue de l’Amiral Mouchez, 75014 Paris, France,
[email protected]
MarcOxenham
School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University,
CanberraACT0200,Australia,[email protected]
MehmetO¨zdog˘an
Prehistory Department, stanbul University, 34134 Istanbul, Turkey,
[email protected]
ElizabethM.Perry
SWCA,SaltLakeCity,Utah84111,[email protected]
ChristianE.Peterson
Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
96822,USA,[email protected]
GaryRollefson
DepartmentofAnthropology,WhitmanCollege,345BoyerAve.,WallaWalla,WA
99362,USA,[email protected]
Contributors xi
StephenShennan
Director,InstituteofArchaeology,UniversityCollegeLondon,31-34GordonSq.,
LondonWC1H0PY,UK,[email protected]
NicolasTomo
Dept.ofHumanGeneticsandAnthropology,AlbertLudwigUniversityofFreiburg,
c/o Institute of Legal Medicine, Albertstr. 9, D- 79110 Freiburg, Germany,
[email protected]
Jean-DenisVigne
CNRS UMR 5197, Muse´um national Histoire national, Paris, France,
[email protected]
RichardH.Wilshusen
DepartmentofAnthropology,ColoradoCollege,ColoradoSprings80903,USA,
[email protected]
UrsulaWittwer-Backofen
DepartmentofHumanGeneticsandAnthropology,AlbertLudwigUniversityof
Freiburg,c/oInstituteofLegalMedicine,Albertstr.9,D-79110Freiburg,Germany,
[email protected]