Origins of Food Production in Anatolia

在国家科学基金会的支持下，迈克尔·罗森伯格博士和 他的同事将在现场进行考古发掘 位于扎格罗斯山区的Hallan Cemi， 土耳其东南部。遗址本身由一个低矮的土堆组成， 占地约0.7公顷，罗森伯格博士以前的工作 它涵盖了大约10600年的时间段， 到现在的一万年前。罗森伯格医生将进行两次 他将开辟广阔的领域， 有控制的地层挖掘， 和花卉遗迹以及各种各样的实物 比如石器。这些将由一个小组进行分析， 重建生存和社会模式 并将该网站置于更广泛的区域背景下。 鉴于汉兰·切米的日期和迄今为止收集的材料， 显然，这个网站记录了一个非常早期的阶段， 新石器革命“革命”一词是恰当的 因为它标志着人类生活方式 在CA。人类存在的200万年。新石器 植物和动物被驯化，定居的村庄生活出现了， 以及一场技术爆炸， 出现了陶瓷技术和冶金学。具有讽刺意味的是， 考古学对这个问题的兴趣如此之大， 已知的扎格罗斯地区，因为它是已知的， 非常早期的新石器时代遗址，并被认为是一个可能的 源头罗森伯格博士迄今为止的工作表明， Hallan Cemi代表了这一过程的早期阶段。而 它包含了家养的植物和动物，陶瓷，另一个标志， 缺乏新石器时代的文明大量的动物和植物样本 这些数据将有助于我们了解 变化 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。在两年内 这整个地区将被一座新建的大坝淹没， 如果现在就开展工作， 迷路了罗森伯格博士收集的信息将增加 我们对人类历史上 人类历史

With National Science Foundation support Dr. Michael Rosenberg and his colleagues will conduct archaeological excavation at the site of Hallan Cemi which is located in the Zagros mountain region of Southeastern Turkey. The site itself consists of a low mound which covers approximately .7 hectares and previous work by Dr. Rosenberg has shown that it covers the time period from approximately 10,600 to 10.000 years before the present. Dr. Rosenberg will conduct two seasons of work in which he will open broad areas and through controlled stratigraphic excavation recover large amounts of faunal and floral remains as well as a broad range of material objects such as stone tools. These will be analyzed by a team of specialists in order to reconstruct subsistence and social patterns and to set the site into a broader regional context. Given the date of Hallan Cemi and the materials collected to date, it is apparent that this site documents a very early phase of the Neolithic Revolution. The term "Revolution" is an appropriate one because it marks perhaps the most significant shift in lifestyle over the ca. 2,000,000 years of human existence. In the Neolithic plants and animals were domesticated, settled village life emerged and a technological explosion which included the development of ceramic technology and metallurgy occurred. It is ironic, given great archaeological interest in this question that so little is known about the Zagros region since it is both known to contain very early Neolithic sites and has been postulated as a possible point of origin. The work to date by Dr. Rosenberg has demonstrated that Hallan Cemi represents an early stage in this process. While it contains domestic plants and animals, ceramics, another hallmark of the Neolithic are lacking. The large faunal and floral samples which will be collected will shed new light on the subsistence change. This research is important for several reasons. Within two years this entire region will be flooded by a newly constructed dam and if work is now done now a unique opportunity will be irrevocably lost. The information which Dr. Rosenberg collects will increase our understanding of perhaps the most important transformation in human history.