The period under review witnessed the publication of the long awaited Jarmo report in 1983 and in the same year the first farming cultures of Zagros range were reviewed by several scholars in The Hilly Flanks and Beyond. The early village-farming cultures of western Iran were discussed in several seminars and colloquia held at Susa (1977), Santa Fe (1977) and Bellevaux, France in 1985 and the latest thinking on the subject is reflected in a number of papers published in the Archaeology of Western Iran (edited by Frank Hole). A brief survey of these cultures has been presented by Andrew Moore in the fourth volume of Advances in World Archaeology (1985).
The present monograph takes stock of the situation as obtained till today and tries to view the problem of Neolithic origins on a broader canvas spreading from the east coast of the Mediterranean to southeast Asia and China. Research on the Neolithic of China has made tremendous strides since 1949 as more than 7000 Neolithic sites have been discovered and more than 400 of them excavated; the most intensive work having been carried out in the Huanghe Valley and the middle and lower reaches of Changjiang. The chronology of prehistoric China has been laid on solid footing by over 1000 C-14 dates published so far.
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