Becoming Neolithic - The Pivot of Human History (Paperback)

The synthesized prehistory of South-West Asia, from the cultural emergence of modern humans as sophisticated and mobile hunter-gatherers in South-West Asia around 50,000 years ago, to the time when a dense population of villagers and mixed farming economies existed throughout the region around 8,000 years ago. It is the story of the momentous transformation of human society and culture; after the seemingly endless millennia of small-scale, mobile, hunting and gathering peoples there emerged a way of life that we can recognize as the foundations of our own. It is an account of the emergence in our human ancestors of an understanding and articulation of their world and their place in it.