{"product_id":"the-birth-of-the-gods-and-the-origins-of-agriculture-paperback-9780521039086","title":"The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521039086","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA study of social and economic transformations in the Near East during Palaeolithic-Neolithic transition, first published in 2000.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJacques Cauvin (Author), Trevor Watkins (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521039086, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 August 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 69 b\/w illus.  9 maps\u003cbr\u003e24.2 x 16.7 x 1.6 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This important book gives the best available overview of the evidence in this significant field … and it offers clearly and persuasively an entirely fresh insight into the Neolithic Revolution.' Colin Renfrew, on the original French edition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eJacques Cauvin has spent many years researching the beginnings of the Neolithic in the Near East, excavating key sites and developing new ideas to explain the hugely significant cultural, social and economic changes which transformed mobile hunter-gatherers into the first village societies and farmers in the world. In this book, first published in 2000, the synthesis of his mature understanding of the process beginning around 14,000 years ago challenges ecological and materialist interpretations, arguing for a quite different kind of understanding influenced by ideas of structuralist archaeologists and members of the French Annales school of historians. Defining the Neolithic Revolution as essentially a restructuring of the human mentality, expressed in terms of new religious ideas and symbols, the survey ends around nine thousand years ago, when the developed religious ideology, the social practice of village life and the economy of mixed farming had become established throughout the Near East and east Mediterranean, and  spreading powerfully into Europe.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of plates\u003cbr\u003e List of figures\u003cbr\u003e Translator's note\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Chronological table\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Origins of Agriculture: 1. Natural environment and human cultures on the eve of the Neolithic\u003cbr\u003e 2. The first pre-agricultural villages: the Natufian\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Revolution in symbols and the origins of Neolithic religion\u003cbr\u003e 4. The first farmers: the socio-cultural context\u003cbr\u003e 5. The first farmers: strategies of subsistence\u003cbr\u003e 6. Agriculture, population, society: an assessment\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Neolithic Revolution: a transformation of the mind\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Beginnings of Neolithic Diffusion: 8. A geographical and chronological framework for the first stages of diffusion\u003cbr\u003e 9. The birth of a culture in the northern Levant and the neolithisation of Anatolia\u003cbr\u003e 10. Diffusion into the central and southern Levant\u003cbr\u003e 11. The evidence of symbolism in the southern Levant\u003cbr\u003e 12. The dynamics of a dominant culture\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Great Exodus: 13. The problem of diffusion in the Neolithic\u003cbr\u003e 14. The completion of the neolithic process in the 'Levantine nucleus'\u003cbr\u003e 15. The arrival of farmers on the Mediterranean littoral and in Cyprus\u003cbr\u003e 16. The sedentary peoples push east: the eastern Jezirah and the Syrian desert\u003cbr\u003e 17. Pastoral nomadism\u003cbr\u003e 18. Hypotheses for the spread of the Neolithic\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Postscript\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Prehistoric archaeology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Prehistoric archaeology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Prehistoric%20archaeology%20%5BHDDA%5D%22\"\u003eHDDA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002030674200,"sku":"9780521039086","price":23.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521039086i_5bfc75e3-5b7f-4148-83c5-bc7038b28c41.jpg?v=1694968521","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-birth-of-the-gods-and-the-origins-of-agriculture-paperback-9780521039086","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}