ANIMAL EXPLOITATION AT ÇAYÖNÜ TEPESİ, SOUTHEASTERN ANATOLIA

Authors : Hitomi Hongo, Richard H. Meadow, Banu Öksüz, Gülçin İlgezdi Bertram

Pages : 107-119

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Publication Date : 2004-08-10

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Our work on faunal remains from Çayönü began in 1996 in Istanbul. Shortly after the plan for our investigation of Çayönü fauna was proposed, one of the authors (Hongo) visited the Braidwoods at the Oriental Institute, at the end of 1994 or beginning of 1995. We had a lunch in the basement of the Oriental Institute over a lunch box that Dr. Linda Braidwood had brought. It was a simple, unpretentious but pleasant and memorable lunch break. It was the first and only occasion that Hongo met the couple, and it still remains as a warm memory. Shortly before that another of us (Meadow) had a dinner with the Braidwoods at Halet Çambel\\\'s stately home on the Bosphorus. This one too, was the only time that he met this wonderful couple. Even these brief encounters made it easy to see how Linda and Robert Braidwood captured the hearts of everyone who worked with them. It was the will of late Dr. Barbara Lawrence, who carried out zooarchaeological studies at Çayönü in the 1970s, as well as of the Braidwood\\\'s that faunal remains from Çayönü be studied in details and Turkish zooarchaeologists being trained through the work. That mission was halted by the unexpected death of Dr. Berrin Kuşatman in 1995. Our work on Çayönü fauna has been carried out with the assistance of two students from Prhistory Section of University of Istanbul, Gülçin İlgezdi and Banu Öksüz who started learning zooarchaeology with Dr. Kuşatman. The spirits of all these people continue to accompany us in our investigation of the faunal remains from Çayönü.
Keywords : Çayönü Tepesi, güneydoğu Anadolu, Çanak Çömleksiz Neolitik, Çanak Çömlekli Neolitik, evcilleştirme, domuz, koyun, keçi, sığır

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