Young C.T., Smith P.E.L., Mortensen P. (eds.) The hilly flanks and beyond

Essays on the prehistory of South-Western Asia presented to R.J. Braidwood, November 15, 1982. — Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983. — Pp. xiii + 374. — (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 36). — ISBN: 0-918986-37-0.When editors of this volume began organizing a Festschrift in honor of Robert Braidwood, they hoped to interest scholars from a variety of different fields with a theme of the food-producing time range (10,000-4,000 B.C.). Many of the contributors have also incorporated in their discussions an important and controversial subject from Braidwood’s large corpus of research, the development of agriculture. The first part of the volume is devoted to articles under the general heading of Syro-Palestine. The theories of spatial analysis are applied in several articles in the Mesopotamian section. Genevieve Dollfus, using Iranian sites of the fifth millennium such as Choga Mish, tries to make comparisons with patterns of land use and settlements from more contemporary periods. This Festschrift is as diverse and interesting as the multifaceted Robert Braidwood. [From a review by Margaret C. Brandt in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies 47 (1988) 294-96].Syro-Palestine.
The Natufian in the Southern Levant (Ofer Bar-Yosef).
Origines de l'agriculture au Levant: Facteurs biologiques et socio-culturels (Jacques Cauvin and Marie-Claire Cauvin).
Early Agriculture in Western Asia (Henri de Contenson).
Les rapports entre I'Anatolie et la Syrie du nord a l'epoque des premieres communautes villageoises de bergers et de paysans (7.600-5.000 B.C.) (Francis Hours and Lorraine Copeland).
The First Farmers in the Levant (Andrew M.T. Moore).
Terminologie et cadre de la prehistoire recente de Palestine (Jean Perrot).
Late Pleistocene- Early Holocene Cultural Traditions in the Zagros and the Levant (Rose L. Solecki and Ralph S. Solecki).
Greater Mesopotamia.
The Force of Numbers: Population Pressure in the Central Western Zagros 12,000-4500 B.C. (Philip E.L. Smith and T. Cuyler Young, Jr).
Early Pig Domestication in the Fertile Crescent: A Retrospective Look (Kent V. Flannery).
Regularity and Change in the Architecture of an Early Village (Charles L. Redman).
Patterns of Interaction Between Seasonal Settlements and Early Villages in Mesopotamia (Peder Mortensen).
The Halafian Culture: A Review and Synthesis (Patty Jo Watson).
Ubaid Mesopotamia Reconsidered (Joan Oates).
Remarques sur l'organisation de l'espace dans quelques agglomerations de la Susiane du Ve millenaire (Genevieve Dollfus).
Symbols of Religion and Social Organization at Susa (Frank Hole).
Political Organization and Settled Zone: A Case Study from the Ancient Near East (Hans J. Nissen).
Spatial Organization in Contemporary Southwest Asian Villages and Archeological Sampling (Carol Kramer).
Afterword.
Natural and Social Science Paradigms in Near Eastern Prehistory (Robert McC. Adams).