The Process of Ungulate Domestication at Çayönü, Southeastern Turkey: A Multidisciplinary Approach focusing on Bos sp. and Cervus elaphus (original) (raw)

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1 July 2009 The Process of Ungulate Domestication at Çayönü, Southeastern Turkey: A Multidisciplinary Approach focusing on Bos sp. and Cervus elaphus

Hitomi Hongo,Jessica Pearson,Banu Öksüz,Gülçin Ilgezdi

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Hitomi Hongo,1 Jessica Pearson,2 Banu Öksüz,3 Gülçin Ilgezdi4

1School of Advanced Science, Graduate University for Advanced Studies Shonan Village, Hayama, Kanagawa 240-0193 (Japan) hongou_hitomi@soken.ac.jp
2School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool 12–14 Abercromby Sq., Liverpool L69 7WZ (United Kingdom) pearson@liv.ac.uk
3Faculty of Prehistory, Istanbul University Beyazit, Istanbul (Turkey) banuoksuz@yahoo.com
4Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen Schloss Hohentübingen, 72070 Tübingen (Germany) gilgezdi@yahoo.com

Abstract

Hongo H., Pearson J., Öksüz B. & Igezdi G. 2009. — The Process of Ungulate Domestication at Çayönü, Southeastern Turkey: A Multidisciplinary Approach focusing on Bos sp. and Cervus elaphus. Anthropozoologica 44(1): 63-78.

Bos and Cervus remains from Prepottery and Pottery Neolithic levels at Çayönü Tepesi are examined employing a multidisciplinary approach, combining the analysis of morphology, age profiles, and stable isotopes in bone collagen. The results show that the process of cattle domestication started at about the same time as three other ungulate taxa (sheep, goats and pigs), by the Channelled Building Subphase (end of Early PPNB/ beginning of Middle PPNB). Two stages are evident in the process of domestication: the initial appearance of domestic animals could be detected in the faunal remains by the appearance of some small-sized individuals and subtle changes in the kill-off patterns, as well as in the changes in stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen. While hunting of wild progenitors continued, there was an overall decrease in the proportion of miscellaneous wild taxa in the assemblage. The second stage of the domestication process begins in the late-final PPNB, suggested by marked size reduction and demographic change, namely the increase of females in the assemblage, as well as dramatic increase in sheep and goats.

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Hitomi Hongo, Jessica Pearson, Banu Öksüz, and Gülçin Ilgezdi "The Process of Ungulate Domestication at Çayönü, Southeastern Turkey: A Multidisciplinary Approach focusing on Bos sp. and Cervus elaphus," Anthropozoologica 44(1), 63-78, (1 July 2009). https://doi.org/10.5252/az2009n1a3

Received: 8 February 2008; Accepted: 1 October 2008; Published: 1 July 2009

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