Asikli Hoyuk: The Generative Evolution of a Central Anatolian PPN Settlement in Regional Context

Stiner M. C., Ozbasaran M., Duru G.

JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, cilt.30, sa.4, ss.497-543, 2022 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 30 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s10814-021-09167-z
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Anthropological Literature, Geobase, Linguistic Bibliography
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.497-543
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Domestication, Niche construction, Social networks, Site formation processes, Caprine management, BROAD-SPECTRUM REVOLUTION, NICHE CONSTRUCTION-THEORY, CORE AREA HYPOTHESIS, POTTERY NEOLITHIC-B, TELL EL-KERKH, NEAR-EAST, HUNTER-GATHERERS, HOLOCENE CLIMATE, TAURUS MOUNTAINS, SOUTHWEST ASIA
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The first Neolithic settlements in Southwest Asia began with a dual commitment to plant cultivation and a sedentary lifestyle. The benefits that foragers-turned-farmers gained from this commitment came with some inescapable constraints, setting new evolutionary pathways for human social and economic activities. We explore the developmental process at the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Asikli Hoyuk in central Anatolia (Turkey), specifically the relationship between internal dynamics and external influences in early village formation. Feedback mechanisms inherent to the community were responsible for many of the unique developments there, including domestication of a variant of free-threshing wheat and the early evolution of caprine management, which gave rise to domesticated stock. Gradual change was the rule at Asikli, yet the cumulative transformations in architecture, settlement layout, and caprine management were great. The many strands of evidence reveal a largely local (endemic) evolution of an early Pre-Pottery Neolithic community. However, burgeoning inequalities stemming from production surplus such as livestock likely stimulated greater regional interaction toward the end of the sequence.