A5081297255- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Ancient Near East History
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
- Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Marine and environmental studies
- Linguistics and Cultural Studies
- History and Cultural Heritage
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Turkish Literature and Culture
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Dental Trauma and Treatments
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
Istanbul University
2012-2025
Significance This article provides original results on the formative conditions of sheep domestication in Near East. To our knowledge, none has been published before, and are expected to be wide interest archaeologists, biologists, other professionals interested evolutionary cultural processes animal domestication.
The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during Neolithic period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic,1Kuijt I. People and Space Early Agricultural Villages: Exploring Daily Lives, Community Size, Architecture Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic.J. Anthropol. Archaeol. 2000; 19: 75-102https://doi.org/10.1006/jaar.1999.0352Crossref Scopus (125) Google Scholar mainly because material culture studies provide limited insight into this issue. However, Anatolian...
We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant, South Caucasus, and the Aegean, broad region that experienced earliest Neolithic transition emergence complex hierarchical societies. Combining 35 new ancient shotgun genomes with 382 23 present-day published genomes, we found within each steadily increased through Holocene. further observed inferred sources gene flow shifted time. In first half Holocene, Southwest Asian East Mediterranean populations...
Significance Sheep and goats (caprines) were domesticated in Southwest Asia, but how many places remain open questions. Our analysis of caprine age sex structures related data reveal a local (endemic) domestication process at Aşıklı Höyük Central Anatolia. Beginning ca. 10,400 y ago, management segued through series viable systems over the next 1,000 y. The earliest stage simply involved capturing wild lambs kids growing them on site to supplement broad-spectrum forager diet. Soon, low-level...
The origins and prehistory of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are incompletely understood; to address this, we generated data from 118 ancient genomes spanning 12,000 years sampled across Eurasia. Genomes Central Türkiye ~8000 BCE genetically proximal the but do not fully explain ancestry later populations, suggesting a mosaic wild ancestries. Genomic signatures indicate selection by herders for pigmentation patterns, hornedness, growth rate. Although first European flocks derive Türkiye, in...
The process of sheep and goat (caprine) domestication began by 9000 to 8000 BCE in Southwest Asia. early Neolithic site at Aşıklı Höyük central Turkey preserves archaeological evidence this transformation, such as culling age sex use enclosures inside the settlement. People's strategies for managing caprines evolved over a period 1000 years, but changes scale practices are difficult measure. Dung midden layers highly enriched soluble sodium, chlorine, nitrate, nitrate-nitrogen isotope...
Human interference with the life cycle of wild ruminant species in 10th-9th millennia BCE was essential to 'Neolithic Revolution' Near East. Being a process learning by doing, initial management must have been challenging both founder flocks and people, but information about potential problems is hitherto lacking archaeological record. Here we report on skeletal condition affecting joint health small bovids. Detailed examination bone surfaces astragalus modern Goitered gazelles as well...
Occupied between ~10,300 and 9300 years ago, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük in Central Anatolia went through early phases sheep domestication. Analysis 629 mitochondrial genomes from this numerous sites Anatolia, southwest Asia, Europe, Africa produced a phylogenetic tree with excessive coalescences (nodes) around Neolithic, potential signature domestication bottleneck. This is consistent archeological evidence management at which transitioned residential stabling to open...
Les faucilles apparaissent au Proche-Orient dès le Natoufien et deviennent de plus en fréquentes Néolithique. On les retrouve sur sites sous forme «lame-faucille » ou d’ «éléments faucille armant manches pour former des outils composites. Plus exceptionnellement, composites moins fragmentaires sont préservées. Certains auteurs considèrent que l’évolution morphologique ces instruments traduit une recherche d’efficacité qui ne cesse s’intensifier depuis l’adoption l’agriculture jusqu’à sa...
Traditional methods for estimating age-at-death of caprines are based on dental and epiphyseal fusion data known to produce rather wide age intervals. In order better interpret prenatal early infantile mortality sheep in prehistoric assemblages more precise predictions needed. We address this issue using a Generalized Additive Model (GAM) developed humerus measurements unborn very young housed modern collections. then verify the resulting prediction model with aid pregnant ewe her foetus...
Carbonate is abundant in many Neolithic tells and a potentially useful archive for dating climate reconstruction. In this paper, we focus on the mineralogy, radiocarbon dating, stable isotope systematics of carbonate hackberry endocarps. Hackberry fruits seeds are edible fresh stored forms, they were consumed large quantities sites Near East, including site our study, Aşıkli Höyük central Anatolia, an Aceramic tell occupied from about 9.4 to > 10.3 BP (7.4 8.3 BCE). Detailed 14 C age...
At Aşıklı Höyük, one of the earliest Pre-pottery Neolithic mound sites in Central Anatolia, a shift animal utilization from broad-spectrum exploitation diverse species to concentration on managed caprines has been observed. Changes balance meat plant foods over same time frame remain an open question. In this study, carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses bulk collagen compound-specific analysis amino acids were undertaken for human remains elucidate dietary impact hunting herding transition...
Regional variation in the historic development of agricultural societies South-west Asia is increasingly apparent. Recent investigations at wetland site Balıklı ( c . 8300–7900 BC) provide new insights into initial processes sedentism Central Anatolia and interaction early communities within local larger-scale networks. Located near major obsidian sources, excellent architectural preservation faunal botanical records suggest cultural connections to upper Middle Euphrates region, yet...