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SUMMARY:Crop diversity\, food plants and households in aceramic Neolithic 
 central Anatolia - Müge Ergun (University of Oxford)
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CONTACT:Neal Payne
DESCRIPTION:Research on Neolithic western Asia evidences a long and comple
 x co-evolutionary process for the beginnings of agriculture and sedentary 
 life. This process reflects the entanglement of diverse dynamics and forms
  of interactions between people and environments across different geograph
 ic regions. Comprehensive archaeological research in central Anatolia\, pa
 rticularly the integration of different lines of evidence from archaeologi
 cal sciences in the last decades\, has demonstrated the importance of this
  region in the development of plant cultivation\, domestication\, herding 
 and householding\; the core components of Neolithic lifeways.\nThis paper 
 focuses on the macrobotanical results from the aceramic Neolithic site of 
 Aşıklı Höyük (8400–7300 cal. BCE) in the eastern part of central An
 atolia\, in volcanic Cappadocia. Aşıklı Höyük\, uniquely in western A
 sia\, allows to document in situ evolution of a sedentary community who gr
 adually engaged with plant cultivation and caprine management. The paper w
 ill discuss the local dynamics that involved in plant management strategie
 s at the site by outlining the diversity on crops and wild food plants and
  the patterns seen in plant domestication processes throughout the long an
 d continuous occupation. The discussion will also include how such dynamic
 s and patterns had an impact on the inhabitants’ life\, influencing dail
 y practices and shaping the evolution of households. The paper will finall
 y assess the results from Aşıklı Höyük in comparison to other Neolith
 ic sites (e.g. Balıklı and Çatalhöyük) with intensive archaeobotanica
 l research to provide a wider and more diachronic perspective for the begi
 nnings and development of agriculture and Neolithic lifeways in central An
 atolia and beyond.\n\n\nIn person and online.\n\nhttps://teams.microsoft.c
 om/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDc2MDk1ZGQtNmNkZC00M2U2LTliYjMtN2EyZWE0MDI5
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LOCATION:Seminar Room\, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research\, D
 owning Site
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