Livestock faecal indicators for animal management, penning, foddering and dung use in early agricultural built environments in the Konya Plain, Central Anatolia

M Portillo, A García-Suárez, W Matthews - … and Anthropological Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Livestock dung is a valuable material for reconstructing human and animal inter-relations
and activity within open areas and built environments. This paper examines the identification …

Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük reveals fundamental transitions in health, mobility, and lifestyle in early farmers

CS Larsen, CJ Knüsel, SD Haddow… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The transition from a human diet based exclusively on wild plants and animals to one
involving dependence on domesticated plants and animals beginning 10,000 to 11,000 y …

A tale of two tells: dating the Çatalhöyük West Mound

D Orton, J Anvari, C Gibson, J Last, A Bogaard… - antiquity, 2018 - cambridge.org
Çatalhöyük is one of the most well-known and important Neolithic/Chalcolithic sites in the
Middle East. Settlement at the site encompasses two separate tell mounds known as …

A landscape-oriented approach to urbanisation and early state formation on the Konya and Karaman plains, Turkey

M Massa, C Bachhuber, F Şahin, H Erpehlivan… - Anatolian …, 2020 - cambridge.org
This paper synthesises the data and results of the Konya Regional Archaeological Survey
Project (2016–2020) in order to address the earliest evidence for cities and states on the …

Animal penning and open area activity at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

M Portillo, A Garcia-Suarez, A Klimowicz… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the last few decades a variety of geoarchaeological methods and ethnoarchaeological
and experimental approaches have demonstrated the fundamental importance of animal …

Staying egalitarian and the origins of agriculture in the Middle East

I Hodder - Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2022 - cambridge.org
This article uses results from the recent excavations at Çatalhöyük in Turkey to propose that
continuous tensions between egalitarian and hierarchical impulses were dealt with in two …

Scratching the surface? A histotaphonomic study of human remains at Neolithic Çatalhöyük

SD Haddow, C Mazzucato… - Archaeological and …, 2023 - Springer
Recent bioarchaeological analyses at the Neolithic Anatolian site of Çatalhöyük have
revealed considerable variation in skeletal completeness, preservation, articulation, and …

A microbotanical and microwear perspective to plant processing activities and foodways at Neolithic Çatalhöyük

CG Santiago-Marrero, C Tsoraki, C Lancelotti… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Çatalhöyük is a renowned archaeological site in central Anatolia, best known for its Neolithic
occupation dated from 7100 to 6000 cal BC. The site received worldwide attention early on …

The impact of Holocene alluvial landscape evolution on an ancient settlement in the southeastern piedmont of Songshan Mountain, Central China: A study from the …

P Lu, H Wang, P Chen, MJ Storozum, J Xu, Y Tian… - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central Plains of China have long been argued to be swampy during the
middle Holocene, despite the presence of many Neolithic sites in the area. Here, we …

A stable isotope and functional weed ecology investigation into Chalcolithic cultivation practices in Central Anatolia: Çatalhöyük, Çamlıbel Tarlası and Kuruçay

E Stroud, A Bogaard, M Charles - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The integration of stable isotope analysis of crop remains with the ecological analysis of
archaeological weed flora allows for a detailed reconstruction of crop husbandry and arable …