Material Engagement, Resources and New Discoveries in Central Anatolian Neolithic
Abstract
The shift from a mobile life of hunting and gathering to a sedentary way of life was a remarkable transformation in human history. Renfrew suggested that the development of sedentary way of life allowed a much more varied relationship with the material world to develop Renfrew 2001: 127 . Human culture becomes more substantive and more material and this is related to sedentism.
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