title: The Iranian Prehistoric Project: New problems arise as more is learned of the first attempts at food production and settled village life.
abstract: Many indications point toward the hill flanks of the Fertile Crescent in southwestern Asia as the scene of the earliest development of effective food production and a village-farming-community way of life, some 10,000 years ago or less. In its 1959-60 field season, with a staff made up of both cultural and natural historians, the Iranian Prehistoric Project reclaimed further evidence of this important transitional step in human history. This is a short interim report, based entirely on an in-the-field assessment of the materials.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Braidwood
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Howe
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Reed