The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences · Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel Ofer Bar-Yosef Editors The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences 123 Editors Jean-PierreBocquet-Appel OferBar-Yosef NationalCentreforScientific HarvardUniversity Research(CNRS) DepartmentofAnthropology UPR2147 PeabodyMuseum 44ruedeL’AmiralMouchez 11Divinity 75014Paris Cambridge,MA02138 France USA [email protected] [email protected] ISBN:978-1-4020-8538-3 e-ISBN:978-1-4020-8539-0 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2008931585 (cid:2)c 2008SpringerScience+BusinessMediaB.V. Nopartofthisworkmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,microfilming,recording orotherwise,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthePublisher,withtheexception ofanymaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeofbeingentered andexecutedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework. Printedonacid-freepaper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com Contents PrehistoricDemographyinaTimeofGlobalization .................... 1 Jean-PierreBocquet-AppelandOferBar-Yosef PartI DemographicandEconomicDimensionsoftheNDT The Expansions of Farming Societies and the Role of the Neolithic DemographicTransition ............................................ 13 PeterBellwoodandMarcOxenham ExplainingtheNeolithicDemographicTransition ...................... 35 Jean-PierreBocquet-Appel TheSignaloftheNeolithicDemographicTransitionintheLevant ....... 57 EmmaGuerrero,StephanNajiandJean-PierreBocquet-Appel TheNatureandTimingoftheNeolithicDemographicTransitioninthe NorthAmericanSouthwest.......................................... 81 TimothyA.KohlerandMattGlaude The Neolithic Demographic Transition in Mesoamerica? Larger ImplicationsoftheStrategyofRelativeChronology ....................107 RichardG.Lesure An Alternative Approach in Tracing Changes in Demographic Composition .......................................................139 MehmetO¨zdog˘an Zooarchaeological Aspects of the Neolithic Diet Transition in the Near East and Europe, and Their Putative Relationships withtheNeolithicDemographicTransition............................179 Jean-DenisVigne v vi Contents ImpactsoftheNeolithicDemographicTransitiononLinearPottery CultureSettlement .................................................207 Je´roˆmeDubouloz PartII SettlementandVillagePractices ARoofOverOne’sHead:DevelopmentsinNearEasternResidential ArchitectureAcrosstheEpipalaeolithic–NeolithicTransition............239 A.NigelGoring-MorrisandAnnaBelfer-Cohen Demography and Storage Systems During the Southern Levantine NeolithicDemographicTransition....................................287 IanKuijt Population Processes and Their Consequences in Early Neolithic CentralEurope ....................................................315 StephenShennan PartIII CommunitySizeandSocialOrganization GlobalPatternsofEarlyVillageDevelopment .........................333 MatthewBandy CentralizedCommunities,Population,andSocialComplexityAfter Sedentarization ....................................................359 RobertD.DrennanandChristianE.Peterson Charming Lives: Human and Animal Figurines in the Late Epipaleolithic and Early Neolithic Periods in the Greater Levant andEasternAnatolia ...............................................387 GaryO.Rollefson EvaluatingtheEmergenceofEarlyVillagesintheNorthAmerican SouthwestinLightoftheProposedNeolithicDemographicTransition....417 RichardH.WilshusenandElizabethM.Perry PartIV PopulationGrowthandHealth Demographic, Biological and Cultural Aspects of the Neolithic Revolution:AViewfromtheSouthernLevant.........................441 IsraelHershkovitzandAviGopher Contents vii Implications of the NDT for World Wide Health and Mortality in Prehistory .........................................................481 MarkNathanCohen FromHealthtoCivilizationStress?InSearchforTracesofaHealth TransitionDuringtheEarlyNeolithicinEurope .......................501 UrsulaWittwer-BackofenandNicolasTomo Index .............................................................539 Contributors MatthewBandy CNRS UPR2147, 44 rue de l’Amiral Mouchez, 75014 Paris, France, [email protected] OferBarYosef DepartmentofAnthropology,DivinityAvenve,HarvardUniversity,Cambridge, MA02138,USA,[email protected] AnnaBelfer-Cohen Department of Prehistory, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Jerusalem91905,Israel,[email protected] PeterBellwood School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, CanberraACT0200,Australia,[email protected] Jean-PierreBocquet-Appel Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UPR2147, 44, rue de l’AmiralMouchez–75014Paris,France,[email protected] MarkNathanCohen DepartmentofAnthropology,SUNYatPlattsburgh,101BroadSt,Plattsburgh,NY 12901,USA,[email protected],[email protected] RobertD.Drennan DepartmentofAnthropology,UniversityofPittsburgh,Pittsburgh,PA15260,USA, [email protected] Je´roˆmeDubouloz Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 7041, European Protohistory,Rene´ Ginouve`s CenterforArchaeology andEthnology (MAE),2 alle´edel’Universite´,92023Nanterre,France,[email protected] MattGlaude Department of Anthropology, WSU, Pullman, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center,SantaFeInstitute,Pullman,WA99164,USA,[email protected] ix x Contributors AviGopher TheSoniaandMarcoNadlerInstituteofArchaeology,TelAvivUniversity,Tel Aviv,Israel,[email protected] A.NigelGoring-Morris Department of Prehistory, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Jerusalem91905,Israel,[email protected] EmmaGuerrero Seminari d’Arqueologia Prehisto`rica del Pro`xim Orient –SAPPO, Universitat Auto`nomadeBarcelona,Barcelona,Spain,[email protected] IsraelHershkovitz Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, The Tassia and Dr. Joseph Meychan Chair of the History and PhilosophyofMedicine,TelAviv,Israel,[email protected] TimothyA.Kohler Department of Anthropology, WSU, Pullman, WA 99164-4910, USA, Crow CanyonArchaeologicalCenter,SantaFeInstitute,[email protected] IanKuijt Department of Anthropology, The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556,USA,[email protected] RichardG.Lesure UCLADepartmentofAnthropology,341HainesHall-Box951553,LosAngeles, CA90095-1553,USA,[email protected] StephanNaji CNRS UPR2147, 44 rue de l’Amiral Mouchez, 75014 Paris, France, [email protected] MarcOxenham School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, CanberraACT0200,Australia,[email protected] MehmetO¨zdog˘an Prehistory Department, stanbul University, 34134 Istanbul, Turkey, [email protected] ElizabethM.Perry SWCA,SaltLakeCity,Utah84111,[email protected] ChristianE.Peterson Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822,USA,[email protected] GaryRollefson DepartmentofAnthropology,WhitmanCollege,345BoyerAve.,WallaWalla,WA 99362,USA,[email protected] Contributors xi StephenShennan Director,InstituteofArchaeology,UniversityCollegeLondon,31-34GordonSq., LondonWC1H0PY,UK,[email protected] NicolasTomo Dept.ofHumanGeneticsandAnthropology,AlbertLudwigUniversityofFreiburg, c/o Institute of Legal Medicine, Albertstr. 9, D- 79110 Freiburg, Germany, [email protected] Jean-DenisVigne CNRS UMR 5197, Muse´um national Histoire national, Paris, France, [email protected] RichardH.Wilshusen DepartmentofAnthropology,ColoradoCollege,ColoradoSprings80903,USA, [email protected] UrsulaWittwer-Backofen DepartmentofHumanGeneticsandAnthropology,AlbertLudwigUniversityof Freiburg,c/oInstituteofLegalMedicine,Albertstr.9,D-79110Freiburg,Germany, [email protected]