TY - BOOK ID - 136292022 TI - The earliest neolithic of Iran. : 2008 excavations at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani AU - Matthews, Roger AU - Matthews, Wendy AU - Muḥammadīʹfar, Yaʻqūb PY - 2013 SN - 1782972269 1782972242 PB - Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, DB - UniCat KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Neolithic period KW - Sheikh-e Abad Site (Iran) KW - Jani Site (Iran) KW - Iran KW - Antiquities. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136292022 AB - Over a period of several millennia, from the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene (c. 13,000-7000 BC), communities in south-west Asia developed from hunter-foragers to villager-farmers, bringing fundamental changes in all aspects of life. These Neolithic developments took place over vast chronological and geographical scales, with considerable regional variability in specific trajectories of change. Two vital and consistent aspects of change were a shift from mobile to sedentary lifestyles and increasingly intensive human management of animal and plant resources, leading to full domesticatio ER -