For the publication of the conference on The Transmission and Assimilation of Culture in the Near East, organized by the Council for British Research in the Levant (held in Jerusalem in February 2000), Trevor Watkins offered a paper titled The neolithic revolution and the emergence of humanity: a cognitive approach to the first comprehensive world-view. It is available here as a pre-print in Acrobat format:-
For the workshop on 'Magic practices in the Neolithic of the Near East', part of the 2nd International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, held in Copenhagen in May 2000, Trevor Watkins offered the following, pre-circulated paper: Memes, memeplexes and the emergence of religion in the Neolithic. A revised version is under preparation for the planned publication of the workshop.
For the Liverpool conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology, (January 4 - 6, 2001), Trevor Watkins gave a paper entitled The beginnings of religion and the beginning of the neolithic - available here in Acrobat format.
And for the London conference of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology (December 13 - 15, 2001), he gave a paper entitled Signs Without Words: the Prehistory of Writing. No full text of the paper is available, but the link will take you to an extensive abstract, and the (slightly enhanced) Powerpoint presentation that was used for the paper.
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