Early Farming in Central Anatolia : An archaeobotanical study of crop husbandry, animal diet and land use at Neolithic Çatalhöyük / by Dragana Filipovic.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-167)

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Archaeological and Environmental Background -- Chapter 3. Methodology -- Chapter 3. Overview of the Assemblage -- Chapter 5. Formation of the Assemblage -- Chapter 6. Exploring Variability Across the Assemblage -- Chapter 7. Animal and Crop Husbandry at Çatalhöyük -- Chapter 8. Plant Use Crop Husbandry and Animal Diet at Early-Mid Neolithic Çatalhöyük : Conclusions.

The Neolithic Catalhoyuk (c. 7400-6000 cal. BC), in the Konya Plain of Central Anatolia, was made famous by the excavations of James Mellaart in 1960s, who uncovered remains of a large, pueblo-like agglomeration of houses (‘the world’s first city’). Renewed excavations at the site over the past twenty years have used a range of current recovery techniques, including systematic sampling of archaeological deposits for archaeobotanical remains. The archaeobotanical recovery programme represents a unique opportunity to directly investigate the socio-economic underpinnings of an early ‘town’ community through the lens of crop husbandry and plant use. In this book, new archaeobotanical evidence from the early-mid Neolithic sequence of Catalhoyuk (c. 7400- 6500 cal BC) is presented and used as a basis for investigations into the nature and scale of crop cultivation at the site. The results shed light on the economic and social role of agricultural production at a large long-lived Neolithic village, and its implications for issues such as settlement location, residents’ mobility, crop cultivation productivity and long-term sustainability.