Students of antiquity often see ancient Turkey as a bewildering array of cultural complexes.
Ancient Turkey brings together in a coherent account the diverse and often fragmented …

The spatial division of cities into residential zones is a universal feature of urban life from the
earliest cities to the present. I propose a two-level classification of such zones that …

The macroevolutionary approach in archaeology represents the most recent example in a
long tradition of applying principles of biological evolution to the study of culture change …

We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant,
South Caucasus, and the Aegean, a broad region that experienced the earliest Neolithic …

The neolithic communities of central Anatolia are generally reconstructed as being
constituted by relatively autonomous and homologous households occupying discrete …

Mudbrick technology and permanent architecture are Neolithic hallmarks but their origins
are not well understood. By adopting a symmetrical approach to the examination of building …

The cultural use of pigments in human societies is associated with ritual activities and the
creation of social memory. Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey, 7100–5950 cal BC) provides a …

This article compiles data on the ninth-to-sixth-millennium-BCE communities of the central
Anatolian plateau, underscoring the distinctive features of each of them in chronological …

Thirty-five years ago, Dexter Perkins (1969) published a brief preliminary analysis of the
animal bones from Ca-talhöyuk, focusing on the question of cattle domestication. It was the …

The first Neolithic settlements in Southwest Asia began with a dual commitment to plant
cultivation and a sedentary lifestyle. The benefits that foragers-turned-farmers gained from …