Evidence of resilience to past climate change in Southwest Asia: Early farming communities and the 9.2 and 8.2 ka events

P Flohr, D Fleitmann, R Matthews, W Matthews… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Climate change is often cited as a major factor in social change. The so-called 8.2 ka event
was one of the most pronounced and abrupt Holocene cold and arid events. The 9.2 ka …

[BOOK][B] Radiocarbon dating: an archaeological perspective

RE Taylor, O Bar-Yosef - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

Ancient cattle genomics, origins, and rapid turnover in the Fertile Crescent

MP Verdugo, VE Mullin, A Scheu, V Mattiangeli… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Genome-wide analysis of 67 ancient Near Eastern cattle, Bos taurus, remains reveals
regional variation that has since been obscured by admixture in modern populations …

Mobility and social change: understanding the European Neolithic period after the archaeogenetic revolution

M Furholt - Journal of archaeological research, 2021 - Springer
This paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of the archaeogenetic revolution to
our understanding of mobility and social change during the Neolithic period in Europe (6500 …

Variable kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia revealed by ancient genomes

R Yaka, I Mapelli, D Kaptan, A Doğu, M Chyleński… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic
period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic, 1 mainly because material culture studies …

Ancient proteins from ceramic vessels at Çatalhöyük West reveal the hidden cuisine of early farmers

J Hendy, AC Colonese, I Franz, R Fernandes… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The analysis of lipids (fats, oils and waxes) absorbed within archaeological pottery has
revolutionized the study of past diets and culinary practices. However, this technique can …

Accurate compound-specific 14C dating of archaeological pottery vessels

E Casanova, TDJ Knowles, A Bayliss, J Dunne… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Pottery is one of the most commonly recovered artefacts from archaeological sites. Despite
more than a century of relative dating based on typology and seriation 1, accurate dating of …

Multivocality and multiproxy approaches to the use of space: lessons from 25 years of research at Çatalhöyük

LM Shillito - World Archaeology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding site formation processes is essential before we can make inferences about
human behaviour, and a key part of the inferential process is the integration of multiple …

Political economy in the archaeology of emergent complexity: A synthesis of bottom-up and top-down approaches

M Furholt, C Grier, M Spriggs, T Earle - Journal of archaeological method …, 2020 - Springer
Political economy approaches have been criticized for their focus on top-down processes
with insufficient attention to non-elite agency. Here, we expand archaeological applications …

Getting to the bottom of it all: a Bayesian approach to dating the start of Çatalhöyük

A Bayliss, F Brock, S Farid, I Hodder, J Southon… - Journal of World …, 2015 - Springer
A new radiocarbon dating program, conceived at the outset within a Bayesian statistical
framework, has recently been applied to the earliest levels of occupation on the Neolithic …