This study presents the results of a major data integration project bringing together primary
archaeozoological data for over 200,000 faunal specimens excavated from seventeen sites …

This paper summarises and interprets data from the Neolithic site ot Çatalhöyük East
collected between 2000 and 2008, while at the same time integrating data from earlier and …

A mural excavated at the Neolithic Çatalhöyük site (Central Anatolia, Turkey) has been
interpreted as the oldest known map. Dating to∼ 6600 BCE, it putatively depicts an …

This paper focuses on early Holocene rapid climate change (RCC) records in the
Mediterranean zone, which are under-represented in continental archives (9.2 to 8.2 ka …

Kinship is a most significant organizing principle of human grouping, the basic matter of
social categories in archaeological and ethnographic societies, and an important concept …

The core of Turkey's land is the Anatolian Peninsula, which is surrounded by several seas
(Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black Sea). Offering a high variety of morphological …

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 …

Human interference with the life cycle of wild ruminant species in the 10 th-9th millennia
BCE was essential to the 'Neolithic Revolution'in the Near East. Being a process of learning …

This book argues that the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe essentially began shortly before
1600 BC, when lands rich in natural resources were taken over by military forces from the …

In a recent article in this journal, Carleton et al.(2013) cast doubt on a hypothesis about the
social organization of the Neolithic tell site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The hypothesis …