Louise Martin

TL;DR: 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 to document the initial westward spread of domestic livestock across Neolithic central and western Turkey.

TL;DR: Cet article examine egalement les differents processus impliques dans la domestication animale, l'hypothese de the domestication locale face a celle of l'introduction, dans cette region, d'animaux d'elevage, ainsi that l'influence des conditions environnementales tres particulieres du Sud Levant sur le processus de domestication.

TL;DR: Stable isotope analysis of humans and fauna from Catalhoyuk indicates that cattle was unlikely to have been the main source of dietary protein for all occupants, and indicates the incorporation of C4 plants into diets, which was previously unrecognized.

TL;DR: The measurement of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes of caprine bone collagen from the Neolithic sites of Catalhoyuk and Asikli Hoyuk in south-central Anatolia have allowed examination of exploitation and herding practices of sheep and goats.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that multiple divergent ancient wild goat sources were domesticated in a dispersed process that resulted in genetically and geographically distinct Neolithic goat populations, echoing contemporaneous human divergence across the region.