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Early Farming in Central Anatolia

An archaeobotanical study of crop husbandry, animal diet and land use at Neolithic Çatalhöyük

£46.00
Author:
Dragana Filipovic
Publication Year:
2014
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313092
Paperback:
184pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
ISBN 10:
1407313096
BAR number:
S2667
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
The Neolithic Çatalhöyük (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 Çatalhöyük (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.