Focus on neolithic agriculture

11 000 years ago, in Southwest Asia, a fundamental change in the history of mankind took place: the dawn of agriculture. The introduction of plant cultivation profoundly impacted the way of life of our Neolithic ancestors. Let's meet some of the world's earliest farmers... Arabic, Croatian, English, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Spanish and Turkish subtitles Scenario: Fiona Pichon and Carolyne Douché Fiona Pichon and Carolyne Douché are PhDs in archaeology. Their complementary and interdisciplinary approaches have led to a better understanding of the emergence of agriculture in the Near-East, at the Syrian site of Dja'de el-Mughara (excavation: E. Coqueugniot) where they both worked. Fiona Pichon is a use-wear specialist: she studies the use-wear traces on the stone tools of the first near-eastern agricultural societies. Associated with the Archéorient laboratory (UMR 5133), she completed her doctorate at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. During two postdoctoral fellowships at the Milà y Fontanals Institute of the CSIC in Barcelona (Fyssen Foundation) and at the University of Tsukuba in Japan (JSPS), she widened her field of investigation and now works in Jordan, Iran and Kurdistan. Carolyne Douché is an archaeobotanist: she studies plant remains (seeds, fruits, chaff). She prepared her PhD thesis at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UMR 7041) in collaboration with the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (UMR 7209). Since 2018, she has been working in northern and southern Iraq to define the role of agriculture in the emergence of the first Mesopotamian cities. Production and realisation: Past & Curious Illustration: Astrid Amadieu https://www.astridamadieu.com/ Animation and editing: Alfred Hébert Join us online! Instagram:   / past_and_cu.  . Twitter:   / past_andcurious   Facebook:   / pastandcurio.  . Translations: English: Carolyne Douché and Carly Henkel Arabic: Hala Alarashi Croatian: Sonja Kačar Greek: Pantelitsa Mylona Italian: Niccolò Mazzucco Japanese: Makoto Arimura Persian: Zahra Hashemi Spanish: Ariadna Nieto Espinet et Fiona Pichon Turkish: Müge Ergun To discover more on the beginning of agriculure: Web page of G. Willcox, specialist in early agriculture: http://g.willcox.pagesperso-orange.fr... An experimental cereal harvest, by F. Pichon : https://archeorient.hypotheses.org/6667 References: ANDERSON P. C. 2000. La tracéologie comme révélateur des débuts de l’agriculture, in GUILAINE J. (éd), Les premiers paysans du monde. Naissance des agricultures, Paris, Errance, p. 99-119. DOUCHE C, PICHON F. 2018. Agricultural Strategies at Dja’de el-Mughara (Northern Syria), in DOUCHE C., PICHON F. (dir.), Routes de l’Orient, Actes I, From the Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula: Domestic Spaces in the Neolithic, p. 119-149. DOUCHE C., WILLCOX G. 2018. New Archaeobotanical Data from the Early Neolithic Sites of Dja’de El-Mughara and Tell Aswad (Syria): A Comparison between the Northern and the Southern Levant, Paléorient 44 (1), p. 45–57. PICHON F. 2017. Exploitation of the cereals during the Pre-pottery Neolithic of Dja'de-el-Mughara: Preliminary results of the functional study of the glossy blades, Quaternary International 427, p. 138-151. Authors webpages: Fiona Pichon : https://cnrs.academia.edu/FionaPichon https://www.archeorient.mom.fr/annuai... https://www.asd-csic.es/staff/fiona-p... Carolyne Douché : https://archeozoo-archeobota.mnhn.fr/... https://cyi.academia.edu/CarolyneDouc...