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[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X2300439X by Lara González Carretero 12/23 ScienceDirect] | [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X2300439X by Lara González Carretero 12/23 ScienceDirect] | ||
For many archaeologists, the site of Jarmo in Iraqi Kurdistan is synonymous with the study of early agriculture and with multidisciplinary archaeology. This is due to previous excavations directed by Robert Braidwood (University Chicago) in 1948, 1950–51 and 1954–55 (Braidwood (1960); L. Braidwood et al 1983). Within the Braidwoods’ hypothesis, Jarmo became representative of the earliest agricultural villages associated with the “hilly flanks of the [Fertile] Crescent”, a phrase first used by Robert Braidwood (1948). | For many archaeologists, the site of Jarmo in Iraqi Kurdistan is synonymous with the study of early agriculture and with multidisciplinary archaeology. This is due to previous excavations directed by Robert Braidwood (University Chicago) in 1948, 1950–51 and 1954–55 (Braidwood (1960); L. Braidwood et al 1983). Within the Braidwoods’ hypothesis, Jarmo became representative of the earliest agricultural villages associated with the “hilly flanks of the [Fertile] Crescent”, a phrase first used by Robert Braidwood (1948). | ||
=====Early agriculture’s toll on human health===== | |||
[https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1908960116 by George R. Milner 26/6/19 PNAS] | |||
It is difficult to envision a world without agriculture. However, as recently as 10 millennia ago, only in the Near East had people turned from hunting and gathering to agriculture as a means of supporting themselves. One such place was Çatalhöyük in modern-day Turkey, the subject of Larsen et al.’s (1) work reported in PNAS (Fig. 1). Several more millennia would pass before a reliance on domesticated plants and animals became commonplace in both the Old and New Worlds. | |||
