Zooarchaeology in Transitional Societies: Evidence from Anatolia, the Bridge between the Near East and Europe

2016-08-01
Pişkin, Evangelia
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This chapter summarizes the attempts to domesticate animals in Anatolia and traces the ways that people experimented with it. New evidence and recently published synthetic works have shown that animal husbandry was incorporated into Neolithic economies through highly variable paths and applications. The relationship of humans with animals encompassed hunting, managing and herding, and the species chosen differed amongst the settlements involved. Over the course of about a thousand years of advancing and retreating, domestication was finally completed and the dominant species were sheep and goat. South-west Asia holds a central place in these transformations as it was there that some of the earlier evidence of such innovations was found. Research in the Levant is abundant and well presented in literature. In contrast, the lands of Anatolia are less well known. Until recently, archaeological excavations that reached layers of this transitional phase of the PrePottery Neolithic (PPN) were very few, and large parts of Anatolia were thought to lack this cultural horizon. It was thought that the ‘Neolithic package’ arrived there from the Levant fully developed and was then transmitted to Europe. Not long ago, fresh information and in some cases, totally unexpected discoveries moved the spotlight to this region, showing clearly that this part of the world played an important role in the development of domestic economies. Anatolia has now emerged as a major centre of animal domestication.
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/73520
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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Book / Book chapter

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E. Pişkin, Zooarchaeology in Transitional Societies: Evidence from Anatolia, the Bridge between the Near East and Europe . 2016, p. 112.
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