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Data sharing reveals complexity in the westward spread of domestic animals across neolithic Turkey.

Arbuckle, BS; Kansa, SW; Kansa, E; Orton, D; Cakırlar, C; Gourichon, L; Atici, L; ... Würtenberger, D; + view all (2014) Data sharing reveals complexity in the westward spread of domestic animals across neolithic Turkey. PLoS One , 9 (6) , Article e99845. 10.1371/journal.pone.0099845. Green open access

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Abstract

This study presents the results of a major data integration project bringing together primary archaeozoological data for over 200,000 faunal specimens excavated from seventeen sites in Turkey spanning the Epipaleolithic through Chalcolithic periods, c. 18,000-4,000 cal BC, in order to document the initial westward spread of domestic livestock across Neolithic central and western Turkey. From these shared datasets we demonstrate that the westward expansion of Neolithic subsistence technologies combined multiple routes and pulses but did not involve a set 'package' comprising all four livestock species including sheep, goat, cattle and pig. Instead, Neolithic animal economies in the study regions are shown to be more diverse than deduced previously using quantitatively more limited datasets. Moreover, during the transition to agro-pastoral economies interactions between domestic stock and local wild fauna continued. Through publication of datasets with Open Context (opencontext.org), this project emphasizes the benefits of data sharing and web-based dissemination of large primary data sets for exploring major questions in archaeology (Alternative Language Abstract S1).

Type: Article
Title: Data sharing reveals complexity in the westward spread of domestic animals across neolithic Turkey.
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099845
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099845
Language: English
Additional information: © 2014 Arbuckle et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1432440
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