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Climatic cycles and behavioural revolutions: the emergence of modern humans and the beginning of farming

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Andrew Sherratt
Andrew Sherratt*
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Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2PH, England. E-mail: andrew.sherratt@linacre.oxford.ac.uk
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Publication of a new volume on the beginnings of Old World farming (Harris 1996) has provided a compendium of current views on this critical inflection-point in human inhabitance of the world. Was it driven by climatic change, as Gordon Childe suggested? And what of the earlier emergence of modern human behaviour: were these two chapters in the same story?

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 272 , June 1997 , pp. 271 - 287
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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