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Stable isotope analysis of faunal remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı, Western Anatolia

dc.contributor.coauthorFindiklar, Sengul
dc.contributor.coauthorÇakırlar, Canan
dc.contributor.departmentANAMED (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations)
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Archaeology and History of Art
dc.contributor.departmentGraduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.contributor.kuauthorIrvine, Benjamin
dc.contributor.kuauthorKaner, Tunç
dc.contributor.kuauthorÖzbal, Rana
dc.contributor.kuauthorRoosevelt, Christina Marie Luke
dc.contributor.kuauthorRoosevelt, Christopher Havemeyer
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteGRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteResearch Center
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-06T20:58:29Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents the results of stable carbon (delta 13C) and nitrogen (delta 15N) isotopic analysis of bulk bone collagen from faunal remains from the Bronze Age site of Kaymak and ccedil;and imath;in western Anatolia. We use the isotopic values in conjunction with zooarchaeological data and contextual archaeological information to examine human-environment interactions;in particular, animal management and husbandry. Middle and Late Bronze Age agricultural systems in western and central Anatolia remain poorly understood, and this research aims to contribute to rectifying this research gap. We obtained stable isotopic values from both wild and domestic species, including deer, hare, birds, catfish, dogs, pigs, caprids and cattle. The delta 13C values range from -22.0 parts per thousand to -16.9 parts per thousand and the delta 15N values range from 2.3 parts per thousand to 10.3 parts per thousand. For cattle, the delta 13C values suggest that some specimens were subject to different management strategies, likely related to feeding or herding patterns or even the movement of animals in and around the region through some exchange mechanism. There appears to be no fixed location or strategy for the management of caprids and, furthermore, there is evidence to suggest that the herding/management areas of some caprids overlapped with those of wild animals such as deer and hare. Variation in delta 15N values for pigs may indicate that whilst some animals in the sampled assemblage were free-roaming, others were penned. For the pigs and some other herbivorous domesticated species variation in delta 15N values may also point to the exploitation of the wetland areas around Lake Marmara.
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dc.description.sponsorshipWe would like to thank the Manisa Museum Directorate and the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Republic of Turkiye, for permissions for excavations, sampling, and analyses. We are grateful to the directors and staff of the Turkish Energy, Nuclear and Mineral Research Agency (TENMAK), Ankara, Turkiye, for their helpful responsiveness and careful analyses. For assistance and guidance in field and laboratory work, we acknowledge all participants of the 2014-2019 seasons of the Kaymakci Archaeological Project. For assistance with the lab work at Koc University we express our gratitude to Ebru Kaner, Sevil Kandemir, Sebnem Turhan, Berfin Dolancay, and Melis Yordamli. Several researchers have significantly contributed to the Kaymakci dataset. We especially acknowledge the laboratory efforts of Francesca Slim in identification and analysis of the broad zooarchaeological dataset to help contextualize her MA research on pigs from Kaymakci. Ongoing analyses of more recent collections by Safoora Kamjan and Tugce Yalcin will feature in future publications. Finally, it is the excavators who have made this possible, both those who live nearby as well as the seasonal team. Here our heartfelt thanks to the communities of Buyukbelen, Haciveliler, and Tekelioglu, and the students of the Kaymakci team. BI acknowledges a joint DAI-ANAMED Environmental Archaeology Fellowship held during the research and data collection of this study. This research was supported by Koc University, the Merops Foundation, private donors, and the 'Groundcheck' research cluster of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) through a collaborative project of the German Archaeological Institute-Istanbul and Koc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations called 'Humidity and Society: 8,500 Years of Climate History in Western Anatolia'. With respect to the latter project, the authors thank Felix Pirson for the pleasant and fruitful collaboration.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/09596836241297077
dc.identifier.eissn1477-0911
dc.identifier.grantnoDAI-ANAMED Environmental Archaeology Fellowship;Koc University;Merops Foundation;Groundcheck research cluster of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) through a collaborative project of the German Archaeological Institute-Istanbul
dc.identifier.issn0959-6836
dc.identifier.quartileQ3
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85208018019
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/09596836241297077
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/27469
dc.identifier.wos1344932900001
dc.keywordsAnimal management
dc.keywordsHuman-environment interactions
dc.keywordsPalaeoenvironment
dc.keywordsStable isotopes
dc.keywordsT and uuml
dc.keywordsRkiye
dc.keywordsZooarchaeology
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSAGE Publications Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofHOLOCENE
dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectPhysical
dc.titleStable isotope analysis of faunal remains from Bronze Age Kaymakçı, Western Anatolia
dc.typeJournal Article
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local.contributor.kuauthorIrvine, Benjamin
local.contributor.kuauthorRoosevelt, Christina Marie Luke
local.contributor.kuauthorKaner, Tunç
local.contributor.kuauthorÖzbal, Rana
local.contributor.kuauthorRoosevelt, Christopher Havemeyer
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