A reflection on neolithization in the plains of Behshahr and Neka in Eastern Mazandaran, Iran

IF 0.9 2区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-05-25 DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2024.100522

Seyyed Kamal Asadi Ojaei , Rahmat Abbasnejad Seresti , Christopher P. Thornton , Roger Matthews

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Abstract

About 70 years ago, C. S. Coon reported the sudden presence of domesticated animal species following a gap between the Mesolithic/Epi-Paleolithic and the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN), based on data from excavations of the Hotu and Kamarband (Belt) Caves in the southeastern littoral of the Caspian Sea. Then, the first scientific step towards Neolithization studies in the region was taken by proposing a hypothesis that emphasized the import of Neolithic culture and domestication packages from the eastern wing of the Fertile Crescent, within the framework of diffusion theory. More recently, another hypothesis has been proposed that Neolithization in eastern Mazandaran is due to endogenous factors. These hypotheses were proposed despite serious weaknesses in both field studies and analyses. Lack of reliable evidence of domesticated species, inconsistency of paleo-climatology chronologies and data with archaeological periods, lack of subsistence and settlement data, problems of Mesolithic/Epi-Paleolithic to Neolithic chronology, and weaknesses in processing and analyses of archaeological data, are some of the problems in Neolithization studies in the region. The present paper intends to provide a proper analysis of the Neolithization studies in this region, and proposes the theory of low-level food production as a key component.

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对伊朗东马赞达兰地区贝赫沙赫尔和内卡平原新石器化的思考

大约 70 年前，库恩（C. S. Coon）根据里海东南沿岸 Hotu 和 Kamarband（带状）洞穴的发掘数据，报告了在中石器时代/前旧石器时代和陶器前新石器时代（PPN）之间的空白时期突然出现的驯化动物物种。随后，在扩散理论的框架内，提出了强调从新月沃土东翼传入新石器时代文化和驯化包的假说，从而迈出了该地区新石器时代研究的科学第一步。最近，又有人提出了另一种假说，即马赞达兰东部的新石器时代是由内生因素造成的。尽管实地研究和分析都存在严重不足，但这些假说还是被提出来了。缺乏驯化物种的可靠证据、古气候年表和数据与考古时期不一致、缺乏生存和定居数据、中石器时代/前旧石器时代到新石器时代的年表问题以及考古数据处理和分析方面的不足，都是该地区新石器时代研究中存在的一些问题。本文旨在对该地区的新石器时代研究进行适当的分析，并提出了作为关键组成部分的低水平粮食生产理论。

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Archaeological Research in Asia ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Archaeological Research in Asia presents high quality scholarly research conducted in between the Bosporus and the Pacific on a broad range of archaeological subjects of importance to audiences across Asia and around the world. The journal covers the traditional components of archaeology: placing events and patterns in time and space; analysis of past lifeways; and explanations for cultural processes and change. To this end, the publication will highlight theoretical and methodological advances in studying the past, present new data, and detail patterns that reshape our understanding of it. Archaeological Research in Asia publishes work on the full temporal range of archaeological inquiry from the earliest human presence in Asia with a special emphasis on time periods under-represented in other venues. Journal contributions are of three kinds: articles, case reports and short communications. Full length articles should present synthetic treatments, novel analyses, or theoretical approaches to unresolved issues. Case reports present basic data on subjects that are of broad interest because they represent key sites, sequences, and subjects that figure prominently, or should figure prominently, in how scholars both inside and outside Asia understand the archaeology of cultural and biological change through time. Short communications present new findings (e.g., radiocarbon dates) that are important to the extent that they reaffirm or change the way scholars in Asia and around the world think about Asian cultural or biological history.