Material Engagement, Resources and New Discoveries in Central Anatolian Neolithic

Abstract

The shift from a mobile life of hunting and gathering to a sedentary way of life was a remarkable transformation in human history. Renfrew suggested that the development of sedentary way of life allowed a much more varied relationship with the material world to develop Renfrew 2001: 127 . Human culture becomes more substantive and more material and this is related to sedentism.