The unusually fertile soil of the region encouraged the further cultivation of wheat as well as rye, barley and legumes and some of the earliest beer in the world was brewed in the great cities along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers the most ancient evidence of beer brewing coming from the Sumerian Godin Tepe settlement in modern-day Iran.
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Thanks for checking! Miguel Vasquez Jan 25, Jan 25, Dec 10, National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. PLoS One. Published online Mar Peter F. Biehl, Editor. Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Received Nov 17; Accepted Mar This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This article has been corrected. See PLoS One. This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Over the last years the Fertile Crescent of the Near East has seen the emergence of urban agglomerations, small scale polities and large territorial empires, all of which had profound effects on settlement patterns.
Introduction The rise of cities forms an enduring theme in global history [ 1 ], and of the many approaches to urban analysis, city size continues to form a key dimension [ 2 ]. Materials and Methods Mapping Settlements and Cities The pattern of ancient settlement has been established by coupling archaeological surveys with remote sensing and selected data from excavations to supply the distribution of the occupied sites, estimates of their size and periods of occupation [ 21 , 22 ].
Open in a separate window. Fig 1. Surveys used in this paper. Table 1 Surveys used in this paper. Estimates of temporal trends The comparison of long term trends in archaeological settlement at a regional scale relies on the construction of a series of phases which have relatively distinct ceramic assemblages, underpinned by groups of C 14 dates which serve to relate the ceramically-defined periods to which survey data is usually assigned to absolute dates in years.
Results Settlement size estimates and long-term trends The initial dataset, including all large sites dating from the sixth to the third millennia BC, captures both the first Late Chalcolithic c. Fig 2. Fig 3. Urban Settlements used in this paper. Aggregate Settlement for the Northern Fertile Crescent Settlement data are expressed first for the western, central and eastern Fertile Crescent and second as a total for all areas summed together.
Fig 4. Aggregate settlement density for the three sub-regions of the northern Fertile Crescent expressed as settled area hectares per km 2 surveyed. Climate Reconstruction and Temporal Scale Analyses of the impact of climate change on human communities over time have been conducted at a variety of temporal scales.
Fig 5. The combined records of climate, maximum city size and aggregate settlement area for the northern Fertile Crescent. Climate and Settlement Records Combined Examining the climate and settlement records together allows us to compare trends in the long term Fig 5. Discussion The routine expansion of cities beyond the — ha ceiling occurs from around BC, during the Middle and Neo-Assyrian empires, both of which maintained a relatively consistent sphere of control extending from the Zagros Mountains to the Euphrates River for some six centuries.
Conclusions The limited correlation between trends in settlement and urbanization and those of climate after BC does not mean that climate was insignificant, only that explanations need to allow for the added complexities associated with later imperial societies that included multifaceted strategies of settlement organisation, agricultural intensification, irrigation, transport overland and via water and taxation.
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