Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MARGINS (Pushing back the MARGINS: investigating the PPNC-Late Neolithic conquest of near-eastern arid lands through settlement pattern analyses and landscape studies)

MARGINS intends to understand why and how, at the end of the Neolithic (PPNC-Late Neolithic, 7th-6th millennium), the arid margins of the Fertile Crescent witnessed a wide settlement growth, performed by groups involved in interregional networks but who developed their own...