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Contents List of Illustrations vii Foreword, by Ofer Bar-Yosef ix Acknowledgments xv 1 Thirty Years in the Trenches 3 2 Theories on Why People Became Food Producers 10 3 Environmental Context 30 Case Study 1. Neolithic Cobble Layers 43 4 The Natufian The First Villagers?—Small Steps with Big Consequences 46 5 A Tumultuous Time Villagers and Others During the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A 86 Case Study 2. Nachcharini Cave 118 6 Courses Toward Complexity Florescence During the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 121 Case Study 3. The Negev PPNB Hunters and Gatherers 168 Case Study 4. Ghwair I 169 7 Megasites in Jordan and the End of the PPN 175 Case Study 5. The Jordanian Megasites 194 8 The Pottery Neolithic and the Beginnings of Regional Cultures 198 Case Study 6. Tel Wadi Feinan 227 9 And on the Islands The Colonization of Cyprus 229 Case Study 7. Research in Cyprus 262 10 The Path to the Present Genesis and Exodus—The Neolithic Experience 264 References Cited 281 Index 329 Contents List of Illustrations vii Foreword, by Ofer Bar-Yosef ix Preface to the Paperback Edition xiv Acknowledgments xvi 1 Thirty Years in the Trenches 3 2 Theories on Why People Became Food Producers 10 3 Environmental Context 30 Case Study 1. Neolithic Cobble Layers 43 4 The Natufian The First Villagers?—Small Steps with Big Consequences 46 5 A Tumultuous Time Villagers and Others During the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A 86 Case Study 2. Nachcharini Cave 118 6 Courses Toward Complexity Florescence During the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 121 Case Study 3. The Negev PPNB Hunters and Gatherers 168 Case Study 4. Ghwair I 169 7 Megasites in Jordan and the End of the PPN 175 Case Study 5. The Jordanian Megasites 194 8 The Pottery Neolithic and the Beginnings of Regional Cultures 198 Case Study 6. Tel Wadi Feinan 227 9 And on the Islands The Colonization of Cyprus 229 Case Study 7. Research in Cyprus 262 10 The Path to the Present Genesis and Exodus—The Neolithic Experience 264 References Cited 281 Index 329 ...

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