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Zenodo
2025
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| Accès en ligne: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17763389 |
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- The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and B (PPNA/B) periods in the Near East represent a pivotal epoch in human history, marking the fundamental shift from mobile hunter-gatherer lifeways to sedentary agricultural societies. This paper argues that PPNA/B settlements were not merely passive aggregations of people but active engines of socio-ecological transformation, fundamentally reshaping both human social structures and the surrounding natural environment. Through the establishment of permanent settlements, these early communities initiated complex feedback loops involving intensified resource exploitation, the domestication of plants and animals, the development of new social hierarchies and communal identities, and profound alterations to landscapes. The emergence of monumental architecture, elaborate burial practices, and intricate symbolic systems within these settlements reflects a burgeoning sense of "place" as a locus of social memory, identity, and power. We explore how these early sedentary communities, by investing labor and meaning into fixed locales, became catalysts for demographic growth, technological innovation, and unprecedented levels of human-environment interaction, ultimately laying the foundations for the complex societies of subsequent millennia. This analysis integrates archaeological evidence with theoretical frameworks of niche construction and human-environment co-evolution to illuminate the dynamic processes through which PPNA/B settlements catalyzed a transformative genesis of place.