Data Sharing Reveals Complexity in the Westward Spread of Domestic Animals across Neolithic Turkey
- Creators
- Arbuckle, Benjamin S.
- Kansa, Sarah Whitcher
- Kansa, Eric
- Orton, David
- Çakirlar, Canan
- Gourichon, Lionel
- Atici, Levent
- Galik, Alfred
- Marciniak, Arkadiusz
- Mulville, Jacqui
- Buitenhuis, Hijlke
- Carruthers, Denise
- de Cupere, Bea
- Demirergi, Arzu
- Frame, Sheelagh
- Helmer, Daniel
- Martin, Louise
- Peters, Joris
- Pöllath, Nadja
- Pawłowska, Kamilla
- Russell, Nerissa
- Twiss, Katheryn
- Würtenberger, Doris
- Others:
- University of North Carolina [Chapel Hill] (UNC) ; University of North Carolina System (UNC)
- University College of London [London] (UCL)
- University of Groningen [Groningen]
- Centre d'Études Préhistoire, Antiquité, Moyen-Age (CEPAM) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- University of Nevada [Las Vegas] (WGU Nevada)
- Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (UAM)
- ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien (Archéorient) ; Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Technische Universität Darmstadt - Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt)
Description
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 across Neolithic central and western Turkey. From these shared datasets we demonstrate that the westward expansion of Neolithic subsistence technologies combined multiple routes and pulses but did not involve a set 'package' comprising all four livestock species including sheep, goat, cattle and pig. Instead, Neolithic animal economies in the study regions are shown to be more diverse than deduced previously using quantitatively more limited datasets. Moreover, during the transition to agro-pastoral economies interactions between domestic stock and local wild fauna continued. Through publication of datasets with Open Context (opencontext.org), this project emphasizes the benefits of data sharing and web-based dissemination of large primary data sets for exploring major questions in archaeology
Abstract
International audience
Additional details
- URL
- https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01295135
- URN
- urn:oai:HAL:hal-01295135v1
- Origin repository
- UNICA