Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Andrew Sherratt’s ‘Water, soil and seasonality’, World Archaeology (1980), signposted a long-term debate surrounding early farming adaptations to riverine landscapes in western Asia and Europe. Recent research at Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia, a key case study in Sherratt’s ‘floodplain cultivation’...
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| description | Andrew Sherratt’s ‘Water, soil and seasonality’, World Archaeology (1980), signposted a long-term debate surrounding early farming adaptations to riverine landscapes in western Asia and Europe. Recent research at Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia, a key case study in Sherratt’s ‘floodplain cultivation’ model, enables integrated, evidence-based assessment of the local hydrology and agroecology, and of farmers’ resilience over more than a millennium. In contrast to previous models, the agroecological niche at Çatalhöyük featured strategic planting of diverse crops across a range of hydrological conditions, within and beyond a broad ‘belt’ of small anastomosing river channels extending a kilometre from the site. Growing conditions likely depended on location relative to settlement, a nutrient-rich ‘hot spot’, with diminishing inputs of organic matter and mechanical disturbance away from the tell. This reconstruction contrasts with the original model of ‘floodplain cultivation’ and demonstrates the complexity with which agroecologies evolved through landscape affordances, creative cropping and resilience. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:14779e95-64bc-4d19-a54a-73f7444425f72022-12-19T09:30:53ZResilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, TurkeyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:14779e95-64bc-4d19-a54a-73f7444425f7EnglishSymplectic ElementsTaylor and Francis2022Ayala, GBogaard, ACharles, MWainwright, JAndrew Sherratt’s ‘Water, soil and seasonality’, World Archaeology (1980), signposted a long-term debate surrounding early farming adaptations to riverine landscapes in western Asia and Europe. Recent research at Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia, a key case study in Sherratt’s ‘floodplain cultivation’ model, enables integrated, evidence-based assessment of the local hydrology and agroecology, and of farmers’ resilience over more than a millennium. In contrast to previous models, the agroecological niche at Çatalhöyük featured strategic planting of diverse crops across a range of hydrological conditions, within and beyond a broad ‘belt’ of small anastomosing river channels extending a kilometre from the site. Growing conditions likely depended on location relative to settlement, a nutrient-rich ‘hot spot’, with diminishing inputs of organic matter and mechanical disturbance away from the tell. This reconstruction contrasts with the original model of ‘floodplain cultivation’ and demonstrates the complexity with which agroecologies evolved through landscape affordances, creative cropping and resilience. |
| spellingShingle | Ayala, G Bogaard, A Charles, M Wainwright, J Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey |
| title | Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey |
| title_full | Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey |
| title_fullStr | Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey |
| title_short | Resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey |
| title_sort | resilience and adaptation of agricultural practice in neolithic catalhoyuk turkey |
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