Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents Summary for Volumes 1, 2 and 3
- Contents
- Volume 1 Maps
- Volume 2 Maps
- Volume 3 Maps
- About the Contributors
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
- Volume 3
- VII. Western and Central Asia
- 3.1 The Early Prehistory of Western and Central Asia
- 3.2 Western and Central Asia: DNA
- 3.3 The Upper Palaeolithic and Earlier Epi-Palaeolithic of Western Asia
- 3.4 The Origins of Sedentism and Agriculture in Western Asia
- 3.5 The Levant in the Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods
- 3.6 Settlement and Emergent Complexity in Western Syria, c. 7000–2500 bce
- 3.7 Prehistory and the Rise of Cities in Mesopotamia and Iran
- 3.8 Mesopotamia
- 3.9 Anatolia: From the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the End of the Early Bronze Age (10,500–2000 bce)
- 3.10 Anatolia from 2000 to 550 bce
- 3.11 The Prehistory of the Caucasus: Internal Developments and External Interactions
- 3.12 Arabia
- 3.13 Central Asia before the Silk Road
- 3.14 Southern Siberia during the Bronze and Early Iron Periods
- 3.15 Western Asia after Alexander
- 3.16 Western and Central Asia: Languages
- VIII. Europe and the Mediterranean
- Index
- References
3.9 - Anatolia: From the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the End of the Early Bronze Age (10,500–2000 bce)
from VII. - Western and Central Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents Summary for Volumes 1, 2 and 3
- Contents
- Volume 1 Maps
- Volume 2 Maps
- Volume 3 Maps
- About the Contributors
- Volume 1
- Volume 2
- Volume 3
- VII. Western and Central Asia
- 3.1 The Early Prehistory of Western and Central Asia
- 3.2 Western and Central Asia: DNA
- 3.3 The Upper Palaeolithic and Earlier Epi-Palaeolithic of Western Asia
- 3.4 The Origins of Sedentism and Agriculture in Western Asia
- 3.5 The Levant in the Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods
- 3.6 Settlement and Emergent Complexity in Western Syria, c. 7000–2500 bce
- 3.7 Prehistory and the Rise of Cities in Mesopotamia and Iran
- 3.8 Mesopotamia
- 3.9 Anatolia: From the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the End of the Early Bronze Age (10,500–2000 bce)
- 3.10 Anatolia from 2000 to 550 bce
- 3.11 The Prehistory of the Caucasus: Internal Developments and External Interactions
- 3.12 Arabia
- 3.13 Central Asia before the Silk Road
- 3.14 Southern Siberia during the Bronze and Early Iron Periods
- 3.15 Western Asia after Alexander
- 3.16 Western and Central Asia: Languages
- VIII. Europe and the Mediterranean
- Index
- References
Summary
Environmental setting
Anatolia is a peninsula linking the Near East–Caucasus and southeastern Europe. Due to this geographic position, Anatolia has often been misconceived as a cultural bridge, with its role in the history of civilisation downgraded to a passageway either transmitting or preventing movements of peoples and/or concepts. In this respect, another bias has been to consider Anatolia as a single, uniform unit; on the contrary, Anatolia comprises a diversity of ecological zones, each covering extensive areas, separated from each other by ranges of high mountains (Gündalı 1979). The peninsula is framed on the north and south by the steep-sided mountain ranges running parallel to the coastline. Karadeniz Dağları (or the Pontids) along the Black Sea, merges in the east with Transcaucasia, and with the Istranca Mountains in the west. The northern flanks of the Black Sea mountains, receiving high rainfall, are covered by evergreen forests, while in the south there is a gradual change from deciduous forests to open forest to steppe environments. The Taurus belt along the Mediterranean, after merging with the Amanos Mountains, a northerly extension of the Lebanon Mountains, continues to the east as the ante-Taurus or East Taurus range, forming the tip of the “Fertile Crescent” arc encircling southeastern Turkey. The dense coniferous forest cover of the Taurus and Amanos in the eastern parts gives way to strands of open forests, mainly of oak and pistachio.
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- The Cambridge World Prehistory , pp. 1508 - 1544Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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