New Sites Discovered in the Yozgat Archaeological Research Project (original) (raw)

The Central/Western Anatolian Farming Frontier (26th April 2016)

As evidence accumulates that Neolithic expansion in Eurasia involved standstills, punctuated by rapid advances, this workshop will explore the hypothesis that the apparent lag in Neolithic occupation between Central and Western Anatolia reflected an actual frontier, where farming expansion was halted. Radiometric measurements indicate that the advent of food production in Western Anatolia was delayed by up to 2,000 calibrated years – potentially making it the longest standstill in Neolithic history. While ongoing excavations in the Konya Plain and Cappadocia have traced back the origins of sedentary farming in Central Anatolia to the second half of the 9 th millennium BC cal., not a single farming site in Western Anatolia has produced consistent evidence for pre-c. 7,000 BC cal. occupation, despite intensive research strategies over the last 20 years targeting early human occupation. Although admitting that the issue under consideration is heavily dependent on the state of research, and that future discoveries may alter the current chronological imbalance, the recent completion or near-completion of several major archaeological digs in Western Anatolia provide, in our opinion, an excellent opportunity for a roundup and the production of the first comprehensive synthesis on this subject. In this respect, another originality of the workshop is that it will bring together researchers working in Central and Western Anatolia, where research has traditionally proceeded in isolation.

Anatolian farmers in Europe: Migrations and cultural transformation in Early Neolithic period

Kahraman, N., Durust, Ç. & Yılmaz, T. (eds.) Proceeding book of 1st International Symposium on Migration and Culture (Vol. 2): 519-532, 2016

Humans first started farming and domesticating animals around 9000 B.C. in the Levant and Central Anatolia. The managing process of different plant and animal species was spreading from the Central Anatolia to Southern and Western Anatolia during 8th millennium B.C. and in 7th millennium B.C. into southeast Europe by Anatolian farmers. Furthermore, this process appeared in central Europe and eventually in northwestern Europe in the middle of 6th millennium B.C. Archaeological evidences testifies this migrations and cultural exchange of Anatolian farmers which enforced the neolithiszation in Europe and inevitably changed Europe’s face forever. This presentation is aimed to give a glimpse of that migration and the cultural transformation process from the Central Anatolia to Europe 11-8000 years ago.

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