TY - BOOK ID - 135461557 TI - Beyond the fertile crescent PY - 2013 SN - 1782970088 1782970061 9781782970088 9781782970064 9781782970071 178297007X 9781842178331 PB - Oxford Oakville, CT DB - UniCat KW - Paleolithic period KW - Neolithic period KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Azraq Basin (Jordan) KW - Antiquities. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135461557 AB - The natural arc of resource-rich land which forms the 'Fertile Crescent' of South-West Asia is regarded as the earliest centre of village-based farming in the world and has been the focus of much of our understanding of the transition from Epipalaeolithic hunter-gathers to Neolithic farmers. Beyond the Fertile Crescent is the first volume of the Azraq Project, a large-scale archaeological and palaeoenvironmental survey and excavation project undertaken between 1982 and 1989 in the ecologically diverse sub-region of the Azraq Basin in north-central Jordan: an area rich in Palaeolithic and Neoli ER -