To Be or not to Be: An Introduction to the Origins, Nature and Chronology of the EPPNB in the Southern Levant

IntroductionThe Early Neolithic period of the Levant, spanning from approximately 10,000 to 6,400 cal. BC (table 1), was a time of profound changes in Human History, traditionally marked by the transition from a hunter-gatherer to a sedentary farming economy. This process of domestication and sedentarisation, termed by Gordon V. Childe (1928) the “Neolithic Revolution”, also entailed substantial socio-cultural transformations, often mirrored in the archaeological record (e.g., Kuijt 1996; Ve...