研究ノート
初期完新世湿潤期とマラリア
先土器新石器時代に起きたヨルダン渓谷からヨルダン高地への集落シフトに関する一仮説
2012 年 55 巻 1 号 p. 36-46
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2012 年 55 巻 1 号 p. 36-46
The Southern Levant is the southwestern comer of the Fertile Crescent, a center where the domestication of animals and plants originated. In this region, the process of neolithization began in PrePottery Neolithic A (PPNA) . During PPNA, most farming villages were located in the Jordan Valley, which has an average elevation of 300 meters below sea level. But the villages shifted from the valley to the Jordan Plateau, which has an average elevation of 900 meters above sea level, during Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB). The main purpose of this paper is to advocate a new hypothesis about this settlement shift.This paper argues that the Early Holocene Wet Phase, which started during PPNB, changed the Jordan Valley into a region where malaria was hyperendemic. The early farmers probably abandoned the Jordan Valley and moved to the Jordan Plateau to avoid the malaria.
