Boncuklu Höyük

Boncuklu Höyük
Boncuklu Höyük
	Reconstructed Huts at Boncuklu Höyük
	Location in Turkey
	37°45′6.588″N 32°51′53.208″E / 37.75183000°N 32.86478000°E
Type	Settlement
Location	Hayiroglu, Konya, Turkey
History
Built	c. 8300 BC
Abandoned	c. 7800 BC
Site notes
Excavation dates	2006
Discovered	2001 by Douglas Baird

Boncuklu Höyük is a Neolithic archaeological site in Hayiroglu, Konya, Turkey, situated around 9 km from the more famous Çatalhöyük site. The tell is made up of the remains of one of the world's oldest villages, occupied from around 8300 to 7800 BC.^[1] The buildings are small and oval shaped with walls constructed of mudbricks. The remains of burials of human bodies were found below the floors of the buildings. The earliest known ceramics of Anatolia have been discovered there.^[1]

The site was discovered by Douglas Baird of the University of Liverpool in 2001.^[2] He has directed excavations there since 2006.

The site of Boncuklu is characterized by some of the first appearances of agriculture in the Anatolian plateau, through the introduction of small-scale agricultural projects. It is considered as a precussor of the large-scale agricultural developments of Çatalhöyük from around 7100 BC.^[3]

References

1 2 Spataro, M.; Fletcher, A.; Cartwright, C.R.; Baird, D. (2017-12-01). "Boncuklu Höyük: The earliest ceramics on the Anatolian plateau". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 16: 420–429. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.10.011. ISSN 2352-409X.
↑ "Site Boncuklu".
↑ Baird, Douglas; Fairbairn, Andrew; Jenkins, Emma; Martin, Louise; Middleton, Caroline; Pearson, Jessica; Asouti, Eleni; Edwards, Yvonne; Kabukcu, Ceren; Mustafaoğlu, Gökhan; Russell, Nerissa; Bar-Yosef, Ofer; Jacobsen, Geraldine; Wu, Xiaohong; Baker, Ambroise; Elliott, Sarah (3 April 2018). Agricultural origins on the Anatolian plateau. pp. E3077–E3086. Furthermore, rather than being a short-lived transitional state, low-level food production formed part of a subsistence strategy that lasted for several centuries, although its adoption had significant long-term social consequences for the adopting community at Boncuklu. Material continuities suggest that Boncuklu's community was ancestral to that seen at the much larger settlement of Çatalhöyük East from 7100 cal BC, by which time a modest involvement with food production had been transformed into a major commitment to mixed farming, allowing the sustenance of a very large sedentary community.

External links

Boncuklu Project website

[:1-1] 1 2 Spataro, M.; Fletcher, A.; Cartwright, C.R.; Baird, D. (2017-12-01). "Boncuklu Höyük: The earliest ceramics on the Anatolian plateau". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 16: 420–429. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.10.011. ISSN 2352-409X.

[2] "Site Boncuklu".

[3] Baird, Douglas; Fairbairn, Andrew; Jenkins, Emma; Martin, Louise; Middleton, Caroline; Pearson, Jessica; Asouti, Eleni; Edwards, Yvonne; Kabukcu, Ceren; Mustafaoğlu, Gökhan; Russell, Nerissa; Bar-Yosef, Ofer; Jacobsen, Geraldine; Wu, Xiaohong; Baker, Ambroise; Elliott, Sarah (3 April 2018). Agricultural origins on the Anatolian plateau. pp. E3077–E3086. Furthermore, rather than being a short-lived transitional state, low-level food production formed part of a subsistence strategy that lasted for several centuries, although its adoption had significant long-term social consequences for the adopting community at Boncuklu. Material continuities suggest that Boncuklu's community was ancestral to that seen at the much larger settlement of Çatalhöyük East from 7100 cal BC, by which time a modest involvement with food production had been transformed into a major commitment to mixed farming, allowing the sustenance of a very large sedentary community.

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