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Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel
National Centre for Scientific
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44 rue de L’Amiral Mouchez
75014 Paris
France
[email protected]
Ofer Bar-Yosef
Harvard University
Department of Anthropology
Peabody Museum
11 Divinity
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
[email protected]
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Prehistoric Demography in a Time of Globalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel and Ofer Bar-Yosef
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Part I Demographic and Economic Dimensions of the NDT
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The Expansions of Farming Societies and the Role of the Neolithic
Demographic Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Peter Bellwood and Marc Oxenham
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Explaining the Neolithic Demographic Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
J.P. Bocquet-Appel
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The Signal of the Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Levant . . . . . . . 57
Emma Guerrero, Stephan Naji and Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel
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The Nature and Timing of the Neolithic Demographic Transition in the
North American Southwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
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The Neolithic Demographic Transition in Mesoamerica? Larger
Implications of the Strategy of Relative Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
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An Alternative Approach in Tracing Changes in Demographic
Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Mehmet Özdoğan
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Zooarchaeological Aspects of the Neolithic Diet Transition in
the Near East and Europe, and Their Putative Relationships
with the Neolithic Demographic Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
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Impacts of the Neolithic Demographic Transition on Linear Pottery
Culture Settlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
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Part II Settlement and Village Practices
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A Roof Over One’s Head: Developments in Near Eastern Residential
Architecture Across the Epipalaeolithic–Neolithic Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
A. Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen
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Demography and Storage Systems During the Southern Levantine
Neolithic Demographic Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Ian Kuijt
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Population Processes and Their Consequences in Early Neolithic
Central Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
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Global Patterns of Early Village Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
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Centralized Communities, Population, and Social Complexity After
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Robert D. Drennan and Christian E. Peterson
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Charming Lives: Human and Animal Figurines in the Late
Epipaleolithic and Early Neolithic Periods in the Greater Levant
and Eastern Anatolia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
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Evaluating the Emergence of Early Villages in the North American
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Demographic, Biological and Cultural Aspects of the Neolithic
Revolution: A View from the Southern Levant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
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Implications of the NDT for World Wide Health and Mortality in
Prehistory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
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From Health to Civilization Stress? In Search for Traces of a Health
Transition During the Early Neolithic in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Ursula Wittwer-Backofen and Nicolas Tomo