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WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 179-196Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00438240600689016
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Neolithic; Epipalaeolithic; Natufian; domestication; foraging; hunter-gatherers
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Sedentism is usually regarded as a pre-condition for the development of crop husbandry in Southwest Asia and, consequently, sedentary pre-agrarian sites are an important focus of research oil the origins of agriculture. It is often assumed that wild grasses were as important for hunter-gatherers as domesticated cereals were for early farmers. and that wild grass exploitation may therefore have had a critical role in enabling sedentism. Results front the analysis of archaeobotanical assemblages from Hallan Cemi. Demirkoy, Qermez Dere and M'lefaat, and comparison with those of other sedentary pre-agrarian sites in Southwest Asia. challeiwe the role often attributed to the exploitation of grasses at this time. Archaeobotanical and ethnographical evidence instead suggests that hunter-gatherers took an opportunistic approach to the resources available and their subsistence strategies were not necessarily centred oil grasses and 'wild cereals'.
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