Towards configuring the neolithisation of Aegean Turkey

Çiler Çilingiroğlu; Canan Çakırlar

doi:10.4312/dp.40.3

Authors

Çiler Çilingiroğlu Department of Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology, Ege University, Bornova-I˙ zmir
Canan Çakırlar Groningen Institute of Archaeology, Groningen University, Groningen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.40.3

Keywords:

emergence of farmer-herders, Neolithic Aegean, West Turkey, leap-frog colonisation model

Abstract

Increasing field work in the ̇Izmir region has produced much sought tangible evidence about the ways in which food-producing communities emerged in the Aegean. Focusing on the archaeological and zooarchaeological data from Ulucak and neighboring sites, the authors discuss the possible mechanisms of initial farmer-herder dispersals into the region. The authors stress that the lack of pre-Neolithic strata in the eastern Aegean impedes a full understanding of forager-farmer interactions in the early Holocene.