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1. PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY AT BESTANSUR

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Smith, Rhi, primary, Fattah, Othman, additional, Salih, Hero, additional, Hawas, Hawar, additional, Britten, Mathew, additional, Richardson, Amy, additional, and Matthews, Wendy, additional

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2020
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13. The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent

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Raheem, Kamal Rasheed, Matthews, Wendy, Richardson, Amy, and Matthews, Roger

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Social Science, Archaeology, History, Ancient, bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology, bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLA Ancient history: to c 500 CE
Abstract

The Eastern Fertile Crescent region of western Iran and eastern Iraq hosted major developments in the transition from hunter-forager to farmer-herder lifestyles through the Early Neolithic period, 10,000-7000 BC. Within the scope of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project, excavations have been conducted since 2012 at two Early Neolithic sites in the Kurdistan region of Iraq: Bestansur and Shimshara. Bestansur represents an early stage in the transition to sedentary, farming life, where the inhabitants pursued a mixed strategy of hunting, foraging, herding and cultivating, maximizing the new opportunities afforded by the warmer, wetter climate of the Early Holocene. They also constructed substantial buildings of mudbrick, including a major building with a minimum of 65 human individuals, mainly infants, buried under its floor in association with hundreds of beads. These human remains provide new insights into mortuary practices, demography, diet and disease.

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2020

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