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Chapter 23 - An Annotation of Afterthoughts on the Times of Change

from Part VI - Commentaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2022

By
Mehmet Özdoğan
Edited by
Peter F. Biehl  and
Eva Rosenstock
Peter F. Biehl
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Eva Rosenstock
Affiliation:
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
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Summary

The meeting on the Times of Change and the present volume of the papers presented at that meeting, considering the vast amount of new and unprecedented information on the “mature” state of Neolithic culture that has been available over the course of the past decade or so, set forth a new challenge to our understanding of the roots of our present-day civilization. We should all be grateful to the organizers for bringing together leading scholars in this field and making available not only the most recent data, but more specifically the much-needed broad-spectrum synthesis of that critical period. This chapter will not be a per se review of the other chapters in this volume; on the contrary, we shall add some remarks looking for common ground as well as for controversies that surfaced during this meeting.

Keywords

Climate changeMigrationMaritime connectionNeolithic package
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Chapter
Information
6000 BC
Transformation and Change in the Near East and Europe
 , pp. 405 - 416
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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