Works cited (season 1)

1: Epipaleolithic Syria & Göbekli Tepe (Atrahasis)

• Shahal Abbo, Simcha Lev-Yadun, Manfred Heun, Avi Gopher, “On the ‘lost’ crops of the neolithic Near East” Journal of Experimental Botany (2013) doi:10.1093/jxb/ers373
• Amaia Arranz-Otaegui, Sue Colledge, Lydia Zapata, Luis Cesar Teira-Mayolini, and Juan José Ibáñez (2016). “Regional diversity on the timing for the initial appearance of cereal cultivation and domestication in southwest Asia.” PNAS | December 6, 2016 | vol. 113 | no. 49 | 14001–14006
• Maxime Aubert, Rustan Lebe, Adhi Agus Oktaviana, Muhammad Tang, Basran Burhan, Hamrullah, Andi Jusdi, Abdullah, Budianto Hakim, Jian-xin Zhao, I. Made Geria, Priyatno Hadi Sulistyarto, Ratno Sardi & Adam Brumm. “Earliest hunting scene in prehistoric art.” Nature volume 576, 2019, pp 442–445. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1806-y
• E. B. Banning (2011). “So Fair a House: Göbekli Tepe and the Identification of Temples in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Near East.”  Current Anthropology , Vol. 52, No. 5 (October 2011), pp. 619-660
• Ofer Bar-Yosef (1989). “The PPNA in the Levant: An overview.” Paléorient, Vol. 15, No. 1 (1989), pp. 57-63
• Elizabeth W Barber, “Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years.” (New York: WW Norton & Company, 1994), p 51.
• Mary Bates, “Prehistoric Puppy May Be Earliest Evidence of Pet-Human Bonding.” National Geographic, Feb 26 2018. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/ancient-pet-puppy-oberkassel-stone-age-dog
• Diane Bolger (2010). “The Dynamics of Gender in Early Agricultural Societies of the Near East.” Journal of Women in Culture & Society 2010, vol 35, no 2, p 503 ff
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• Lu Chen, Aaron B. Wolf, Wenqing Fu, Liming Li, & Joshua M. Akey. “Identifying and Interpreting Apparent Neanderthal Ancestry in African Individuals.” Cell vol 180, issue 4, February 2020, pp 677-687. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30059-3
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• Andrew Curry, “Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?” Smithsonian, November 2008. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/
• Stephanie Dalley, tr. “Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and others.” (Oxford University Press, 1989), pp 15-16
• Laura Dietrich, Julia Meister, Oliver Dietrich, Jens Notroff, Janika Kiep, Julia Heeb, Andre Beuger, Brigitta Schütt (2019). “Cereal processing at Early Neolithic Gobekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey.” PLoS ONE 14(5): e0215214. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215214
• Oliver Dietrich (2016). “Losing your head at Göbekli Tepe.” Tepe Telegrams: From the Göbekli Tepe Research Project, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, May 5 2016.  https://www.dainst.blog/the-tepe-telegrams/2016/05/05/losing-your-head-at-gobekli-tepe/
• Oliver Dietrich, Manfred Heun, Jens Notroff, Klaus Schmidt & Martin Zarnkow (2012). “The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities. New evidence from Gobekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey.” Antiquity 86 (2012): 674–695. http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/086/ant0860674.htm
• IES Edwards, CJ Gadd, NGL Hammond, eds. “The Cambridge Ancient History: Prolegomena and Prehistory.” 3rd ed, vol 1, part 1. (Cambridge University Press, 1970), p 70 ff.
• Carol R Ember, “Hunter-Gatherers (Foragers).” Human Resources Area Files, Yale University, June 1 2020. https://hraf.yale.edu/ehc/summaries/hunter-gatherers
• “Climate change since the advent of humans.” Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed Jun 6 2021. https://www.britannica.com/science/climate-change/Climate-change-since-the-advent-of-humans
• Julia Gresky, Juliane Haelm, Lee Clare (2017). “Modified human crania from Göbekli Tepe provide evidence for a new form of Neolithic skull cult.” Sci. Adv. 2017;3: e1700564, 28 June 2017.
• Douglas Harper, “Cane.” Online Etymology Dictionary, accessed Jun 6 2021. https://www.etymonline.com/word/cane
• Steven A LeBlanc & Katherine E Register (2003). “Constant Battles: Why we fight.” New York, St Martin’s Press, 2003.
• Li Liu, Jiajing Wang, Danny Rosenberg, Hao Zhao, György Lengyel, & Dani Nadel (2018). “Fermented beverage and food storage in 13,000 y-old stone mortars at Raqefet Cave, Israel: Investigating Natufian ritual feasting.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Volume 21, 2018, pp 783-793, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.08.008
• A. M. T. Moore and G. C. Hillman (1992). “The Pleistocene to Holocene Transition and Human Economy in Southwest Asia: The Impact of the Younger Dryas.” American Antiquity, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Jul., 1992), pp. 482-494
• Arlene M. Rosen and Isabel Rivera-Collazo (2012). “Climate change, adaptive cycles, and the persistence of foraging economies during the late Pleistocene/ Holocene transition in the Levant.” PNAS, March 6, 2012, vol. 109 no. 10, pp 3640–3645
• Arlene M. Rosen (2018). “Climate Change and the Origins of Agriculture in Western Asia.” Braidwood Visiting Scholar Lecture for the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, uploaded May 2, 2018. https://youtu.be/ChMNRum8Q3o
• Marshall Sahlins, “Hunter-gatherers: Insights from a golden affluent age.” Pacific Ecologist, Winter 2009, p 3. http://pacificecologist.org/archive/18/pe18-hunter-gatherers.pdf

2: Neolithic cereal domestication (Ninurta vs Asag) &
3: Other Neolithic crop domestications (Telipinu)

• Shahal Abbo, Dan Shtienberg, Judith Lichtenzveig, Simcha Lev-Yadun, & Avi Gopher (2003). “The chickpea, summer cropping, & a new model for pulse domestication in the ancient Near East.”  The Quarterly Review of Biology, December 2003, Vol. 78, No. 4, p 435 ff
• Shahal Abbo, Simcha Lev-Yadun, Manfred Heun, and Avi Gopher (2013). “On the ‘lost’ crops of the neolithic Near East” Journal of Experimental Botany, 2013 doi:10.1093/jxb/ers373
• Laura Alfonsi, Francesca Romana Cinti, Domenico Di Mauro, and Shmuel Marco (2012). “Archaeoseismic Evidence of Two Neolithic (7,500–6,000 B.C.) Earthquakes at Tell es-Sultan, Ancient Jericho, Dead Sea Fault.” Seismological Research Letters Volume 83, Number 4 July/August 2012, p 639 ff.
• Mallikarjuna K. Aradhya, Ed Stover, Dianne Velasco, Anne Koehmstedt (2010) “Genetic structure and differentiation in cultivated fig (Ficus carica L.)” Genetica (2010) 138:681–694, 10 March 2010. DOI 10.1007/s10709-010-9442-3
• Azhaguvel, Perumal and Komatsuda, Takao (2007). “A Phylogenetic Analysis Based on Nucleotide Sequence of a Marker Linked to the Brittle Rachis Locus Indicates a Diphyletic Origin of Barley.” Annals of Botany, Vol. 100 Issue 5, pp. 1009-1015. http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/100/5/1009.short
• A. Badr, K. Muller, R. Schäfer-Pregl, H. El Rabey, S. Effgen, H. H. Ibrahim, C. Pozzi, W. Rohde, and F. Salamini (2000).  “On the Origin and Domestication History of Barley (Hordeum vulgare)” Mol. Biol. Evol. 17(4):499–510. Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. ISSN: 0737-4038
• Ofer Bar-Yosef (1986). “The Walls of Jericho: An Alternative Interpretation.” Current Anthropology 27, no. 2, pp 157-162.
• Ran Barkai & Roy Liran (2008). “Midsummer Sunset at Neolithic Jericho.” Time & Mind vol 1, no 3, Nov 2008, pp 273-284
• Guillaume Besnard, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Amandine Cornille (2018). “On the origins and domestication of the olive: a review and perspectives” Annals of Botany 121: 385–403, 2018 doi:10.1093/aob/mcx145
• Laurent Bouby, Isabel Figueiral, Anne Bouchette, Nuria Rovira, Sarah Ivorra, Thierry Lacombe, Thierry Pastor, Sandrine Picq Philippe Marinval, Jean-Frederic Terral (2013). “Bioarchaeological Insights into the Process of Domestication of Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) during Roman Times in Southern France” PLOS ONE.  May 2013 | Volume 8 | Issue 5 | e63195
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• Andrea Brandolini & Manfred Heun (2019). “Genetics of brittleness in wild, domesticated and feral einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum L.) and the place of origin of feral einkorn.” Genet Resour Crop Evol no 66 (2019), pp 429–439
• Catherine Breton, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Christian Pinatel, Frédéric Médail, François Bonhomme, André Bervillé. “The origins of the domestication of the olive tree.” CR Biologies 332, 2009, pp 1059-1064.
• Nabih Bulos, “Masgouf: the Iraqi dish that brought down a dictator.” Los Angeles Times, Mar 3 2020. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-03/its-the-national-dish-that-brought-down-a-dictator-and-its-delicious
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• Zohar Kerem, Simcha Lev-Yadun, Avi Gopher, Pnina Weinberg, Shahal Abbo (2007). “Chickpea domestication in the Neolithic Levant through the nutritional perspective.” Journal of Archaeological Science 34 (2007), pp 1289-1293
• Benjamin Kilian, Hakan Özkan, Jochen Kohl, Arndt von Haeseler, Francesca Barale, Oliver Deusch, Andrea Brandolini, Cemal Yucel, William Martin, Francesco Salamini (2006).  “Haplotype structure at seven barley genes: relevance to gene pool bottlenecks, phylogeny of ear type and site of barley domestication” Mol Gen Genomics (2006) 276:230–241 DOI 10.1007/s00438-006-0136-6
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• Dafna Langgut, Rachid Cheddadi, Josѐ Sebastián Carrión, Mark Cavanagh, Daniele Colombaroli, Warren John Eastwood, Raphael Greenberg, Thomas Litt, Anna Maria Mercuri, Andrea Miebach, C Neil Roberts, Henk Woldring, Jessie Woodbridge (2019). “The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence” The Holocene, February 14 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619826654
• Osamu Maeda, Leilani Lucas, Fabio Silva, Ken-Ichi Tanno, & Dorian Q Fuller (2016). “Narrowing the harvest: Increasing sickle investment and the rise of domesticated cereal agriculture in the Fertile Crescent.” Quarterly Science Reviews 145 (2016), pp 226-237
• Martin Mascher, Verena J Schuenemann, Uri Davidovich, Nimrod Marom, Axel Himmelbach, Sariel Hübner, Abraham Korol, Michal David, Ella Reiter, Simone Riehl, Mona Schreiber, Samuel H Vohr, Richard E Green, Ian K Dawson, Joanne Russell, Benjamin Kilian, Gary J Muehlbauer, Robbie Waugh, Tzion Fahima, Johannes Krause, Ehud Weiss, & Nils Stein (2016) “Genomic analysis of 6,000-year-old cultivated grain illuminates the domestication history of barley.” Nature Genetics volume 48, pp 1089–1093 (2016) doi:10.1038/ng.3611
• Niccolò Mazzucco, Juan Jose Ibañez, Giacomo Capuzzo, Bernard Gassin, Mario Mineo, Juan Francisco Gibaja (2020). “Migration, adaptation, innovation: The spread of Neolithic harvesting technologies in the Mediterranean.” PLoS ONE 15(4), April 30, 2020, pp 1 ff. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232455
• Patrick McGovern, Mindia Jalabadze , Stephen Batiuk, Michael P. Callahan, Karen E. Smith, Gretchen R. Hall, Eliso Kvavadze, David Maghradze, Nana Rusishvili, Laurent Bouby, Osvaldo Failla, Gabriele Cola, Luigi Mariani, Elisabetta Boaretto, Roberto Bacilieri, Patrice This, Nathan Wales, and David Lordkipanidze (2017). “Early Neolithic wine of Georgia in the South Caucasus.” PNAS, November 13, 2017, pp 10309-10318
• Morrell, Peter and Clegg, Michael (2006). “Genetic evidence for a second domestication of barley (Hordeum vulgare) east of the Fertile Crescent.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 104 no. 9, pp. 3289–3294. University of California. http://www.pnas.org/content/104/9/3289.short
• Michael Morsch (2002), "Magic figurines? A view from Nevalı Çori", in: H.G.K. Gebel, Bo Dahl Hermansen and Charlott Hoffmann Jensen, eds. "Magic Practices and Ritual in the Near Eastern Neolithic". (Berlin: ex oriente, 2002) SENEPSE 8.
• Sean Myles, Adam R. Boyko, Christopher L. Owens, Patrick J. Brown, Fabrizio Grassi, Mallikarjuna K. Aradhya, Bernard Prins, Andy Reynolds, Jer-Ming Chia, Doreen Ware, Carlos D. Bustamante, and Edward S. Buckler (2011). “Genetic structure and domestication history of the grape.” PNAS, March 1, 2011, vol. 108, no. 9, pp 3530–3535
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4: Neolithic livestock domestication (Enkidu & Shamhat) & 
5: Other Neolithic animal domestications (Sumerian fables)

• Florian J. Alberto, Frédéric Boyer, Pablo Orozco-terWengel, Ian Streeter, Bertrand Servin, Pierre de Villemereuil, Badr Benjelloun, Pablo Librado, Filippo Biscarini, Licia Colli, Mario Barbato, Wahid Zamani, Adriana Alberti, Stefan Engelen, Alessandra Stella, Stéphane Joost, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan, Riccardo Negrini, Ludovic Orlando, Hamid Reza Rezaei, Saeid Naderi, Laura Clarke, Paul Flicek, Patrick Wincker, Eric Coissac, James Kijas, Gwenola Tosser-Klopp, Abdelkader Chikhi, Michael W. Bruford, Pierre Taberlet, & François Pompanon (2018). “Convergent genomic signatures of domestication in sheep and goats” Nature Communications, no 9 (2018), p 813
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• Carrie Arnold, “ ‘Puppy dog eyes’ evolved so dogs could communicate with us.” National Geographic, June 17 2019. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dogs-eyebrows-humans-communication
• Alicia Ault, “Ask Smithsonian: Are Cats Domesticated?” Smithsonian, Apr 30 2015. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-are-cats-domesticated-180955111/
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• Bernardo Chessa, Filipe Pereira, Frederick Arnaud, Antonio Amorim, Félix Goyache, Ingrid Mainland, Rowland R. Kao, Josephine M. Pemberton, Dario Beraldi, Michael J. Stear, Alberto Alberti, Marco Pittau, Leopoldo Iannuzzi, Mohammad H. Banabazi, Rudovick R. Kazwala, Ya-ping Zhang, Juan J. Arranz, Bahy A. Ali, Zhiliang Wang, Metehan Uzun, Michel M. Dione, Ingrid Olsaker, Lars-Erik Holm, Urmas Saarma, Sohail Ahmad, Nurbiy Marzanov, Emma Eythorsdottir, Martin J. Holland, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan, Michael W. Bruford, Juha Kantanen, Thomas E. Spencer, Massimo Palmarini (2009). “Revealing the History of Sheep Domestication Using Retrovirus Integrations.” Science vol. 324, 24 April 2009, pp 532 ff
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• Mélanie Roffet-Salque, Rosalind E Gillis, Richard P Evershed, & Jean-Denis Vigne, “Milk as a pivotal medium in the domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats” in “Hybrid Communities: Biosocial Approaches to Domestication and Other Trans-species Relationships”, ed. Charles Stépanoff & Jean-Denis Vigne, 2019
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6: Health during the Neolithic (Ebers medical papyrus)

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• Jennifer C.C. Hume, Emily J. Lyons and Karen P. Day (2003). “Human migration, mosquitoes and the evolution of Plasmodium falciparum.” TRENDS in Parasitology Vol.19 No.3 March 2003, pp 144 ff.
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• Ben Krause-Kyora, Julian Susat, Felix M Key, Denise Kuhnert, Esther Bosse, Alexander Immel, Christoph Rinne, Sabin-Christin Kornell, Diego Yepes, Soren Franzenburg, Henrike O Heyne, Thomas Meier, Sandra Losch, Harald Meller, Susanne Friederich, Nicole Nicklisch, Kurt W Alt, Stefan Schreiber, Andreas Tholey, Alexander Herbig, Almut Nebel, Johannes Krause (2018). “Neolithic and medieval virus genomes reveal complex evolution of hepatitis B” eLife 2018;7:e36666. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.36666
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• Shamik Polley, Sandra Louzada, Diego Forni, Manuela Sironi, Theodosius Balaskas, David S. Hains, Fengtang Yang and Edward J. Hollox (2015). “Evolution of the rapidly mutating human salivary agglutinin gene (DMBT1) and population subsistence strategy.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , Vol. 112, No. 16 (April 21, 2015), pp. 5105-5110
• Alessia Ranciaro, Michael C. Campbell, Jibril B. Hirbo, Wen-Ya Ko, Alain Froment, Paolo Anagnostou, Maritha J. Kotze, Muntaser Ibrahim, Thomas Nyambo, Sabah A. Omar, and Sarah A. Tishkoff (2014). “Genetic Origins of Lactase Persistence and the Spread of Pastoralism in Africa” The American Journal of Human Genetics 94, 496–510, April 3, 2014
• Didier Raoult, Bruno Foti and Gérard Aboudharam (2013). “Historical and geographical parallelism between the incidence of dental caries, Streptococcus mutans and sugar intake” European Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 28, No. 8 (2013), pp. 709-710
• John Robb (1997). “Intentional tooth removal in Neolithic Italian women.” Antiquity 71 (1997): 659-69
• Mélanie Roffet-Salque, Rosalind E Gillis, Richard P Evershed, & Jean-Denis Vigne, “Milk as a pivotal medium in the domestication of cattle, sheep, and goats” in “Hybrid Communities: Biosocial Approaches to Domestication and Other Trans-species Relationships”, ed. Charles Stépanoff & Jean-Denis Vigne, 2019
• James C Scott (2017). “Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States.” Yale University Press, 2017, pp 100-103
• Gabriel Trueba & Micah Dunthorn (2012). “Many Neglected Tropical Diseases May Have Originated in the Paleolithic or Before: New Insights from Genetics.” PLoS, March 2012, Volume 6, Issue 3, e1393
• Douglas H. Ubelaker (2000). “Temporal trends in Old World patterns of morbidity.” Chungara: Revista de Antropología Chilena, January-June 2000, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 33-40
• James LA Webb (2005). “Malaria and the peopling of early tropical Africa.” Journal of World History, September 2005, p 269 ff.
• Robin A Weiss & Anthony J McMichael (2004). “Social and environmental risk factors in the emergence of infectious diseases,” from “Health of People, Places and Planet”, ed. Colin D Butler, Jane Dixon, & Anthony G Capon, ANU Press.  Reprinted in Nature Medicine Supplement vol. 10 no. 12, December 2004
• Burcu Yildirim (2019). “The social & symbolic role of early pottery in the Near East.” Master’s thesis, Middle East Technical University, July 2019, p 87 ff.

7: Late Neolithic pottery & feasting (Sumerian proverbs, part 1)
8: Late Neolithic warfare & the Domuztepe death pit (Sumerian proverbs, part 2)
9: Late Neolithic gender & administration at Sabi Abyad (Inanna & Enki)

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• Guillermo Algaze and Daniel Fessler (2001). “A reconsideration of the origins of human settlement and social differentiation.” Samuel R. Wolff, ed. “Studies in the Archaeology of Israel and Neighboring Lands in Memory of Douglas L. Esse.” Eisenbrauns, 2001, p 9 ff.
• Abbas Alizadeh (1996). "Chogha Mish." BD 1, 1996, p 166 ff.
• Cigdem Atakuman (2013). “Deciphering Later Neolithic stamp seal imagery of Northern Mesopotamia.” Documenta Praehistorica XL (2013).
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• Linda Bloomfield (2022). “Firing Clay: The Lowdown on the Ceramic Firing Process: The Process of Firing Pottery Explained.” Ceramic Arts Network Daily, Jan 21, 2022. https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/daily/article/Firing-Clay-The-Lowdown-on-the-Ceramic-Firing-Process 
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• Diane Bolger (2010). “The Dynamics of Gender in Early Agricultural Societies of the Near East.” Journal of Women in Culture & Society 2010, vol 35, no 2, p 503 ff
• Bruce Bower, “Skeletal damage hints some hunter-gatherer women fought in battles.” Science News, Apr 27 2020. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/women-warriors-hunter-gatherers-battles-mongolia
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• Theya Molleson (1994). “The Eloquent Bones of Abu Hureyra: The daily grind in an early Near Eastern agricultural community left revealing marks on the skeletons of the inhabitants.” Scientific American, August 1994, pp 70-75
• Olivier Nieuwenhuyse (2020). “Containers and Creativity in Late Neolithic Upper Mesopotamia.” Ian Hodder, ed. “Consciousness and Creativity at the Dawn of Settled Life.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• Joan Oates (2012). “Samarran issues.” OP Niewenhuyse, R Bernbeck, PMMG Akkermans, & J Rogasch, eds. “Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia.” Brepols, 2012, p 407 ff.
• Jane Peterson (2010). “Domesticating gender: Neolithic patterns from the southern Levant.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 29 (2010) 249–264
• Francesca Balossi Restelli (2012). “Eating at Home and ‘Dining’ Out? Commensalities in the Neolithic and Late Chalcolithic in the Near East.” Susan Pollock (ed), “Between Feasts and Daily Meals: Toward an Archaeology of Commensal Spaces”. eTopoi, Special Volume 2 (2012), pp. 75–95
• Jennifer Rychlo (2012). “Bioarchaeological Reconstruction of Gender Roles in Early Agricultural Societies of the Near East.” University of Saskatchewan, Dept of Archaeology & Anthropology.
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• Mary Voight (2007). “The Splendour of Women: Late Neolithic Images from Central Anatolia.” Renfrew, C. and Morley, I. eds. “Image and Imagination: A Global Prehistory of Figurative Representation.” Cambridge, UK: McDonald Institute Monographs, pp 151-170
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• Burcu Yildirim (2019). “The social & symbolic role of early pottery in the Near East.” Master’s thesis, Middle East Technical University, July 2019, p 8 ff.

10: Miscellany & Neolithic summary (Eridu in Sumerian poetry)

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