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5. Pastoral Nomadization in the Neolithic Near East: Review from the Viewpoint of Social Resilience

Author : Sumio Fujii

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Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

It is well-known that the Neolithization in the Near East, namely, the far-reaching sociocultural reorganization based on the domestication of plant and animal resources, proceeded within the Fertile Crescent during the ninth to eighth millennium calBC. Though less clearly traced, it is also commonly accepted that the pastoral nomadization followed with a few millennia gap in between. The question is the intermediate stage between the two. Our recent investigation in the al-Jafr Basin, southern Jordan, has produced archaeological evidence for pastoral transhumance bridging the two. What is important is that this new lifestyle started during the early stage of the Neolithization, more than one millennium earlier than the 8.2 ka cold/dry event that is supposed to have triggered the pastoral nomadization. This fact suggests the possibility that the early Holocene penetration into the arid margin had an aspect of social resilience against a potential crisis of the emerging Neolithic society rather than an adaptation to the climatic fluctuation. If so, the subsequent pastoral nomadization could be understood as its extension. This paper reviews the research outcomes in the al-Jafr Basin and discusses the initial process of pastoral nomadization in southern Jordan from the viewpoint of social resilience.

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Metadata
Title
Pastoral Nomadization in the Neolithic Near East: Review from the Viewpoint of Social Resilience
Author
Sumio Fujii
Copyright Year
2020
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
Resilience and Human History

Print ISBN: 978-981-15-4090-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-15-4091-2

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4091-2_5