Abstract
This article scrutinizes various spheres of life of the Neolithic community of Çatalhöyük from a perspective of twenty-five years of faunal research there. Issues of domestication, subsistence and social practice, processing and preparation of animal-related food, seasonality, health, demography, and manufacturing are discussed, demonstrating significant changes between the phases of Neolithic occupation. The results clearly point to a pastoral economy based on caprines, to the skills of Çatalhöyük’s inhabitants in herding and resource management, and to increased independence in provisioning, production, consumption, and food preferences as the demographics decrease in the final phase. Links are illustrated between penning, butchering, processing and preparing food, waste utilization, certain social practices, and public health, showing a range of odor emissions, disease risks, and pathways of parasite transmission. Post-Neolithic study has to date been mostly concentrated on contextual zooarcheology in order to elucidate the depositional pathways of bone assemblages.
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