2012/11/21 by Mihriban Özbaşaran · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History #Ancient Near East History #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
paper · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195376142.013.0005
openalex publication_date 2012/11/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This article compiles data on the ninth-to-sixth-millennium-BCE communities of the central Anatolian plateau, underscoring the distinctive features of each of them in chronological order and deliberately avoiding the traditional phase terminology of the Neolithic. The data presently display local adaptations of central Anatolian Neolithic communities to their diverse habitats. In the ninth and early eighth millennia BCE, sedentism and a heavy reliance on naturally occurring resources constituted the way of life on the plateau. Full farming villages developed toward the second half of the eighth millennium, and settlements with specialized objectives seem to have been established in the seventh millennium. Although the picture was surely not that simplistic or linear, the article provides an overall look at the neolithization of the plateau.