Ceren Kabukcu

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that semi-arid deciduous oak woodlands should not be viewed as part of the natural vegetation of the Irano-Anatolian region that has been progressively destroyed by millennia of human activities since the Neolithic.

TL;DR: The initial spread of farming outside of the area of its first appearance in the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia, into Central Anatolia, involved adoption of cultivars by indigenous foragers and contemporary experimentation in animal herding of local species, demonstrating a rare clear-cut instance of forager adoption and sustained low-level food production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the only substantive evidence for the Epipalaeolithic of central Anatolia and present a revised understandings of phenomena often proposed as characteristic of the early human populations of South-west Asia including the appearance of sedentism, a putative Broad Spectrum Revolution, intensive plant exploitation and the emergence of distinctive ritual and symbolic practices.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss new and previously available anthracological datasets retrieved from excavated habitation sites in the southern Levant dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) period.

TL;DR: A critical review of the main methodological achievements in sampling and quantitative analysis in anthracology, the study of wood charcoal macro-remains from archaeological contexts is provided in this paper.