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During the Late Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic, societies across the Levant transformed their social, cultural and economic organisation, with new forms of food production, architecture and material culture. But to what extent were regional developments connected and how, in particular, did ideas and objects flow between the most southern and northern reaches of Southwest Asia? Finds from the Pre-Pottery Neo- lithic site of WF16 in southern Jordan resonate with those from Göbekli Tepe and other sites hundreds of kilometres to the north. Emphasising shared symbolism and ideology, the authors explore how connections may have arisen and how they were maintained, revealing expansive social networks spanning Southwest Asia that

This book of James Mellaart is a classical archaeological review, describing the consequences of Catal-Huyuk (Anatolian neolithic town) research, as well as its architecture, culture, sculpture, religion and customs.

This thesis examines the role that animals played in the lives of people in the PrePottery Neolithic Levant (including Turkey). It investigates how the ways in which humans and animals interacted can provide insights into their changing relationships, and into how the people viewed and interacted with their perceived worlds, both natural and constructed. By looking at the place of animals in society, and then more specifically at their role within artistic and mortuary practices, we can come to a better understanding of how animals may have been used to both express and reflect changing roles and worldviews for the people. We can also gain insights into the

Growing reliance on animal and plant domestication in the Near East and beyond during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) (the ninth to eighth millennium BC) has often been associated with a “revolutionary” social transformation from mobility toward more sedentary lifestyles. We are able to yield nuanced insights into the process of the Neolithization in the Near East based on a bioarchaeological approach integrating isotopic and archaeogenetic analyses on the bone remains recovered from Nevalı Çori, a site occupied from the early PPNB in Turkey where some of the earliest evidence of animal and plant domestication emerged, and from Ba'ja, a typical late PPNB site in Jordan. In addition,

The spread of T-shaped pillars in Upper Mesopotamia in the PPN The discovery of Göbekli Tepe, a site with monumental architecture, changed how archaeologists approach the PPN period in the Neolithic. Traditionally considered an era of hunter-gatherer subsistence, the monumental architecture at Göbekli Tepe presented the excavators with a confounding situation: how could small bands of hunter-gatherers come together and in concerted action design, construct and subsequently decorate such an elaborate series of structures? (Nortoff et al 2014, 84) The most striking of the architecture found at Göbekli Tepe are the T-shaped pillars, of which an estimate of two-hundred dot the tell at Göbekli Tepe.1 The pillars range from