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C. A. Reed in, Prehistoric Investigations in Iraqi Kurdistan, eds. R. J. Braidwood and B. Howe (University of Chicago Press, 1960), pp. 129–138; for different dates on domestication but entire agreement that domestication of animals took place in settled communities, see J. Mellaart, The Cambridge Ancient History, 3rd ed. Vol. 1/Part 1, 1970, pp. 248–254.
Robert J. Braidwood, Prehistoric Men (7th ed.; Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1967), pp. 81–153. On the physical conditions disposing the neolithic revolution to occur where it did in the ancient Near East, consult K. W. Butzer, The Cambridge Ancient History, 3rd ed. Vol 1/Part 1, 1976, pp. 35–62.
My warmest thanks go to Dr. I. J. Gelb, Hershel Shanks and Professor Barry Ross of United Wesleyan College, each of whom read early copies of this paper and made numerous suggestions and corrections. I am deeply indebted to Dr. Gelb for his extensive and constructive remarks relating to the entire issue of the reading of the tablets and their interpretation. I alone remain responsible for any inaccuracies I may have retained.
