Where Did the Lake District Neolithic Come from?
摘要
This chapter is devoted to reviewing the existing concepts relating to Central Anatolia during the period 6500–5500 BC, marked by rapid and profound multifaceted change. In this chapter, some issues relating to the westward expansion of the Neolithic will be tackled, which is relevant to understanding the emergence of the Lake District Neolithic. I will focus on Konya Plain and Burdur Area respectively, presenting the scholarly debate on their interrelationships. I would like to draw special attention to a model proposed by Mehmet Özdoğan (Istanbul University), which presents the dispersal of Neolithic groups as a continuous process, reverse to still persuasive view of Gordon Childe, who has pictured out the Neolithic expansion from the Near East to Europe as a mass, single event.