Paléorient, vol. 37.1, p. 137-152 © CNRS ÉDITIONS 2011 Manuscrit reçu le 31 mars 2011, accepté le 10 mai 2011 HOME IS WHERE WE KEEP OUR FOOD:

THE ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE AND LATE PRE-POTTERY NEOLITHIC FOOD STORAGE

I. KUIJT

Introduction

As part of a multi-researcher discussion of The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture Ofer Bar-Yosef stated, “ In sum, it is an impossible task to discuss the whole range and richness and diversity of comments and interpretations offered by Jacques Cauvin”. 1 While the publication of The

Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture represents the most high-profi le, innovative and controversial of Cauvin’s research, in many ways it has come to overshadow the contributions that Cauvin made as a long-time fi eld archaeologist who both refl ected upon the broader mechanism behind the Neolithic Revolution, the Neolithic material world, and the outcomes of Neolithisation. At his broadest, he wrote about the engines of change driving the social and economic processes of Neolithisation. Now ten years since his passing, I come back to Bar-Yosef’s comments about the work of Cauvin, and fi nd