Early farming in Central Anatolia : an archaeobotanical study of crop husbandry, animal diet and land use at Neolithic Çatalhöyük /
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| Author / Creator: | Filipović, Dragana, 1976- author. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Archaeopress, 2014. ©2014 |
| Description: | xii, 167 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | BAR international series ; 2667 BAR international series ; 2667. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10097316 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 167 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-167). |
| ISBN: | 1407313096 9781407313092 |