Resilience and Redundance

Resource Networks and the Neolithic Chert Economy at Çatalhöyük, Turkey

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7175109
AutoresAdam Joseph Nazaroff (Stanford University, autor de correspondencia), Adnan Baysal (0000-0002-1119-2082, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, autor de correspondencia), Yahya Çiftçi (0000-0002-5026-3808, autor de correspondencia), Keith Prufer, Keith M Prufer (0000-0003-3173-1546, University of New Mexico, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen18
Número3
Páginas402-428
Fecha de publicación2014-11-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-9571 • E-ISSN: 1741-2722
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1179/1461957114y.0000000081
OpenAlexW2003522401
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas57

The polycentric nature of Neolithic developments in the Middle East has prompted several discussions related to the processes driving regional diversification in the emergence of agglomerate societies. Archaeologists have recognized how diverse social, environmental, and material landscapes shaped various communities, resulting in a heterogenous Neolithic world. In this paper, we use portable x-ray fluorescence analysis to determine the use of different chert resources at the site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, and question how their consumption affected, and was affected by, different social and material practices enacted within the community. We adopt a network perspective to examine the range of behaviours that consumed particular resources, and trace how alterations in these networks impacted the social fabric of Çatalhöyük. Ultimately, we conclude that different investments involved in the consumption of each resource either promoted or restricted their use through time. A more complete picture of Neolithic life, we suggest, takes note of the varied relationships that communities developed with nearby social and environmental landscapes, including nuances in the ways in which resources were incorporated into different facets of each community

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