Early Farming In Central Anatolia: An Archaeobotanical Study Of Crop Husbandry, Animal Diet And Land Use At Neolithic Catalhoyuk (Bar International)

The Neolithic ?talh?? (c. 7400-6000 cal. BC), in the Konya Plain of Central Anatolia, was made famous by the excavations of James Mellaart in 1960s, who uncovered remains of a large, pueblo-like agglomeration of houses ('the world's first city'). Renewed excavations at the site over the past twenty years have used a range of current recovery techniques, including systematic sampling of archaeological deposits for archaeobotanical remains. The archaeobotanical recovery programme represents a unique opportunity to directly investigate the socio-economic underpinnings of an early 'town' community through the lens of crop husbandry and plant use. In this book, new archaeobotanical evidence from the early-mid Neolithic sequence of ?talh?? (c. 7400- 6500cal BC) is presented and used as a basis for investigations into the nature and scale of crop cultivation at the site. The results shed light on the economic and social role of agricultural production at a large long-lived Neolithic village, and its implications for issues such as settlement location, residents' mobility, crop cultivation productivity and long-term sustainability.

• • Author: Dragana Filipovic
• • Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
• • Publication Date: Sep 12, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 167 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1407313096
• • ISBN-13: 9781407313092