The Natufian culture in the Levant, threshold to the origins of agriculture

摘要: The aim of this paper is to provide the reader with an updated description archeological evidence for origins agriculture in Near East. Specifically, I will address question why emergence farming communities East was inevitable outcome a series social and economic circumstances that caused Natufian culture be considered threshold major evolutionary change.1–4 importance such understanding has global implications. Currently, information points two other centers early cultivation, central Mexico middle Yangtze River China, led complex civilizations.4 However, best-recorded sequence from foraging found Its presence warns against approach viewing all three sequences as identical terms primary conditions, motivations activities, resulting cultural, social, ideological changes. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.