Diversity and Complexity in Early Farming Communities of Southwest Asia
New Insights into the Economic and Environmental Basis of Neolithic Çatalhöyük
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| ID | 2221047 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Neil Roberts (0000-0001-5538-8653, University College London, autor correspondente), A M Rosen (0000-0002-1296-2851, University College London, autor correspondente), Arlene Rosen (0009-0005-4401-1195) |
| Ano | 2009 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 393-402 |
| Data de publicação | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Editora | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/598606 |
| OpenAlex | W2103430447 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 41 |
| Referências citadas | 30 |
Intensive but localized cultivation of cereal crops on alluvial wetlands is thought to have provided the ecological basis for the primary Neolithic settlement that spread across southwest Asia and southeast Europe. New excavations at Çatalhöyük provide an opportunity to test this horticultural model via multiple data sources. Geoarchaeological studies show that the main Neolithic occupation coincided with a period of active river alluviation. Most of the area surrounding Çatalhöyük was therefore under floodwaters each spring that would have seriously damaged any autumn-sown cereal crops. Independent evidence that the cereal crops consumed at Çatalhöyük were grown under rain-fed conditions derives from the paucity of silicified multicellular wheat phytoliths at the site. Together, these and other data suggest that the bulk of the cereal agriculture was not carried out in the immediate vicinity of Çatalhöyük but was at least 13 km and 3 h away in dryland soils. In turn, this implies that there may have been seasonal fission and fusion of Çatalhöyük's population, with systematic exploitation of, and impact on, a range of different ecological zones. This phase of nucleated settlement ended when river flooding ceased, coincident with a multidecadal drought from 6300 to 6140 BC
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Alluvium · Archaeology · Biodiversity · Biology · Flooding (psychology · Geography · Population · Range (aeronautics · Settlement (finance · Wetland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Environmental Science · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Revisiting the Agropastoral Landscape of Çatalhöyük East Through Agent-Based Modeling (9100–8100 BP)
Realising consilience
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Stable Carbon Isotope Evidence for Neolithic and Bronze Age Crop Water Management in the Eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia
From Site to Landscape
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Neolithic land-use, landscape development, and environmental dynamics in the Carpathian Basin
Early Holocene palaeoseasonality inferred from the stable isotope composition of Unio shells from Çatalhöyük, Turkey
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The Geoarchaeology of Mudbricks in Architecture
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Woodland modification in Bronze and Iron Age central Anatolia
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the alluvial landscape of Neolithic Çatalhöyük, central southern Turkey
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The combined use of oxygen isotopes and microwear in sheep teeth to elucidate seasonal management of domestic herds
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Taphonomic Observations of Archaeological Wheat Phytoliths From Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey, and the Use of Conjoined Phytolith Size as an Indicator of Water Availability
Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük
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Water Management and the Political Economy of Chaco Canyon During the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850-1200)
Mediterranean and north-African cultural adaptations to mid-Holocene environmental and climatic changes
Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and flora exploitation at the Palaeolithic cave of Theopetra, central Greece
Macrophysical Climate Modeling, economy, and social organization in Early Bronze Age Anatolia
Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Humans and fire
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The Seasonality of Wetland and Riparian Taskscapes at Çatalhöyük
Settlement change on the western Konya Plain
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Animal penning and open area activity at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Quantifying climatic change through the last glacial–interglacial transition based on lake isotope palaeohydrology from central Turkey
Alluvial Geoarchaeology
Hydrological changes in the African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum
The 8.2ka event from Greenland ice cores
The 8k event
Prehistoric farming in Europe
Macro-botanical evidence for plant use at Neolithic Çatalhöyük south-central Anatolia, Turkey
Wild plant seed storage at Neolithic Çatalhöyük East, Turkey
Charcoal analysis and the reconstruction of ancient woodland vegetation in the Konya Basin, south-central Anatolia, Turkey
Holocene environment and settlement on the Çarşamba alluvial fan, south‐central Turkey
Late quaternary geomorphological change and the origins of agriculture in south central Turkey
Identifying Ancient Irrigation
A note on the geomorphological environment of Çatal Hüyük, Turkey
New light on early caprine herding strategies from isotope analysis
Netiv Hagdud
Quantifying the Consumption of Obsidian at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
The Palaeoecology of South Central Anatolia at the end of the Pleistocene and the beginning of the Holocene
Notes on Site Distribution in the Çumra Area
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Flood-Water Farming
A history of agricultural production at Neolithic Çatalhöyük East, Turkey
Water, soil and seasonality in early cereal cultivation
Archaeobotanical Evidence for the Spread of Farming in the Eastern Mediterranean
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