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100 1 _aRaheem, Kamal Rasheed
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700 1 _aMatthews, Wendy
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700 1 _aRichardson, Amy
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700 1 _aMatthews, Roger
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700 1 _aRaheem, Kamal Rasheed
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700 1 _aMatthews, Wendy
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700 1 _aRichardson, Amy
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700 1 _aMatthews, Roger
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245 1 0 _aThe Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent : Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan
260 _c2020
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520 _aThe 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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650 7 _aArchaeology
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650 7 _aAncient history: to c 500 CE
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653 _aSocial Science
653 _aArchaeology
653 _aHistory
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