ÇAKIRLAR , Canan

Provisioning an Urban Center under Foreign Occupation. Zooarchaeological Insights into the Hittite Presence in Late Fourteenth-Century BCE Alalakh

Social diversity in LBIIA Amuq: A zooarchaeological study of recently excavated LBIIA contexts in ancient Alalakh

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 in Turkey spanning the Epipaleolithic through Chalcolithic periods, c. 18,000-4,000 cal BC, in order to document the initial westward spread of domestic livestock...

Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the introduction of Near Eastern pigs into Europe, however, their characteristic mtDNA signature...