Chapter 9. The Neolithic in Anatolia at the regional scale

Introduction For several decades, the relationships between climate and human history and their consequences on past societies have been a key subject in the scientific literature of geoarchaeology, palaeoclimatology and archaeology. This debate is particularly vivid and productive regarding the Neolithic to Bronze Age periods in the Fertile Crescent and the Eastern Mediterranean. After direct correspondence was proposed between climate (wet/dry) and cultural (Early, Middle, Late) phases (e.g...