A5084852990- Ancient Near East History
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Linguistics and language evolution
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
University of Groningen
2020-2022
Institute of Archaeology
2018
This paper explores pig husbandry across the Aegean and Anatolia based on zooarchaeological data ancient texts. The western Anatolian citadel of Kaymakçı is departure point for discussion, as it sits in Mycenaean-Hittite interaction zone provides a uniquely large assemblage bones. NISP, mortality, biometric from 38 additional sites Greece allows observation intra- interregional variation role pigs subsistence economies, management, size characteristics. Results show that, first, abundance at...
Current understandings of the archaeology second-millennium B.C.E. central western Anatolia are enriched by ongoing research at Kaymakçı, located in Marmara Lake basin middle Gediz River valley Turkey. Discovered during regional survey 2001, site offers a critical node exploration for understanding previously unexamined period well-traversed geography thought to be core Late Bronze Age Seha Land known from Hittite texts. Here we present results first three seasons excavation on citadel...
The Middle and Late Bronze Ages of western Anatolia (modern Turkey) remains poorly understood in comparison with its Mycenaean Hittite neighbours, especially agricultural economies land use. Kaymakçı is the largest Age citadel excavated to date new archaeobotanical zooarchaeological data from site presented here shed light on regional Agricultural practices at focused barley bitter vetch farming pig, caprine, cattle husbandry within a diverse extensive economic system that made substantial...
Anatolia witnessed an increase in mobility and interaction during the Iron Age. Peoples from Southeastern Europe Southwest Asia migrated into across Anatolia. At same time, under influence of expanding competing polities, trade military reinforced supra-regional networks land sea. Little is known about how animal husbandry practices Age changed face these large-scale movements people goods. Especially little understood remains past connectivity influenced pig husbandry, as pigs are generally...
One hundred years of zooarchaeology in Groningen. In 1920, Albert Egges van Giffen founded the Biologisch-Archaeologisch Instituut. Even back was a main component institute’s research focus and started zooarchaeological reference collection. The collection gradually expanded, continued to be undertaken under direction of, first, Prof. Dr. Anneke Clason, then Wietske Prummel, now Canan Çakırlar. recent years, field has seen rise application biomolecular approaches. This happened at GIA as...