The first Neolithic settlements in Southwest Asia began with a dual commitment to plant cultivation and a sedentary lifestyle. The benefits that foragers-turned-farmers gained from this commitment came with some inescapable constraints, setting new evolutionary pathways for human social and economic activities. We explore the developmental process at the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük in central Anatolia (Turkey), specifically the relationship between internal dynamics and external influences in early village formation. Feedback mechanisms inherent to the community were responsible for many of the unique developments there, including domestication of a variant of free-threshing wheat and the early evolution of caprine management, which gave rise to domesticated stock. Gradual change was the rule at Aşıklı, yet the cumulative transformations in architecture, settlement layout, and caprine management were great. The many strands of evidence reveal a largely local (endemic) evolution of an early Pre-Pottery Neolithic community. However, burgeoning inequalities stemming from production surplus such as livestock likely stimulated greater regional interaction toward the end of the sequence.

西南亚的第一个新石器时代定居点始于对植物种植和久坐生活方式的双重承诺。采集者转变为农民从这一承诺中获得的好处伴随着一些不可避免的限制，为人类社会和经济活动设定了新的进化途径。我们探索了安纳托利亚中部（土耳其）Aşıklı Höyük 早期陶器新石器时代遗址的发展过程，特别是早期村庄形成过程中内部动态与外部影响之间的关系。社区固有的反馈机制促成了那里的许多独特发展，包括自由脱粒小麦变种的驯化和山羊管理的早期演变，从而产生了驯化种群。渐进式的变化是阿西克利的规则，但建筑、定居点布局和山羊管理方面的累积变化是巨大的。许多证据揭示了早期前陶器新石器时代社区很大程度上是局部（地方性）演化的。然而，畜牧业等生产过剩导致的不平等现象日益加剧，可能会在序列结束时刺激更大的区域互动。