Papers by Mehmet Karaucak
Archaeogenetic studies have described two main genetic turnover events in prehistoric western Eur... more Archaeogenetic studies have described two main genetic turnover events in prehistoric western Eurasia: one associated with the spread of farming and a sedentary lifestyle starting around 7000-6000 bc (refs. 1-3) and a second with the expansion of pastoralist groups from the Eurasian steppes starting around 3300 bc (refs. 4,5). The period between these events saw new economies emerging on the basis of key innovations, including metallurgy, wheel and wagon and horse domestication 6-9. However, what happened between the demise of the Copper Age settlements around 4250 bc and the expansion of pastoralists remains poorly understood. To address this question, we analysed genome-wide data from 135 ancient individuals from the contact zone between southeastern Europe and the northwestern Black Sea region spanning this critical time period. While we observe genetic continuity between Neolithic and Copper Age groups from major sites in the same region, from around 4500 bc on, groups from the northwestern Black Sea region carried varying amounts of mixed ancestries derived from Copper Age groups and those from the forest/steppe zones, indicating genetic and cultural contact over a period of around 1,000 years earlier than anticipated. We propose that the transfer of critical innovations between farmers and transitional foragers/herders from different ecogeographic zones during this early contact was integral to the formation, rise and expansion of pastoralist groups around 3300 bc.
e-Forschungsberichte des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 2022-1, § 1–27, 2022
During the ongoing archaeological work in Pietrele, Măgura Gorgana
(jud. Giurgiu) in Romania, the... more During the ongoing archaeological work in Pietrele, Măgura Gorgana
(jud. Giurgiu) in Romania, the lower layers of the Copper Age settlement
mound were reached during the campaigns of the last years. The recorded
features belong to the earliest occupation phase and represent the oldest
remains of the settlement. Reaching these layers now makes it possible to
record the development of the settlement without gaps and also to comprehensively
assess the relationship between the tell settlement itself and the
surrounding flat settlement. The integration of scientific studies on the
reconstruction
of the environment as well as archaeobotanical analyses of
material from different areas of the settlement also provide information on
the appearance of the landscape and shed light on the interactions between
humans and the environment in the 5th millennium BCE.
PLOS ONE, 2021
Due to its conflict-ridden recent history, it has been difficult to launch major archaeological p... more Due to its conflict-ridden recent history, it has been difficult to launch major archaeological projects and advanced field research in Afghanistan during the last forty years. Lately, the proliferation of remote sensing methods, especially the increasing availability of satellite imagery, has allowed generating a much-needed impetus for documentation and monitoring of the heritage in Afghanistan. In this study, we present novel site data obtained through an examination of publicly available satellite imagery in the southwestern region of Kandahar. The sites presented here consist of a multitude of cultural heritage such as settlement mounds, architectural remains, religious monuments, fortresses, and traditional water management systems. We also discuss the advantages, as well as the drawbacks of remote sensing surveys for archaeological research in Afghanistan, and share our data to be employed in further research and cultural heritage management in the region.
Fundberichte Hessen Digital 2 • 2021 / 22, 2021
Das Steinkammergrab von Züschen, 1898 erstmals publiziert,
ist wegen der zahlreichen Zeichen auf... more Das Steinkammergrab von Züschen, 1898 erstmals publiziert,
ist wegen der zahlreichen Zeichen auf seinen
Wandsteinen ein herausragendes Denkmal des Neolithikums
in Europa. Sowohl die Darstellungen von Rindergespannen
und Wagen sowie die vegetabilen Zweigmuster
waren weiträumig bis in den Kaukasus verbreitet.
Erstmals wurde die Dokumentation des Grabes mittels
eines Laserscanners, der fotogrammetrischen Aufnahme
und digitaler Fotografie realisiert werden. Dabei konnten
auch bis dahin nicht erkannte Zeichen dokumentiert
werden.
Bulgarian e-Journal of Archaeology, 2019
A B S T R AC T The Lower Danube region provides an opportunity to study the spatial organization ... more A B S T R AC T The Lower Danube region provides an opportunity to study the spatial organization of Copper Age tell settlements. In this short paper, we will try to explore the areas outside the tell site itself, and provide new evidence for the settlement organization in the outer settlement area. Essentially, the new data generated by geophysical prospection, which was later confirmed by trench excavations, brought into discussion the presence, variety and the character of outer settlement features encountered in the immediate environment of a Gumelnița tell in Pietrele, circa 4600/4550 to 4300/4250 BC. The exploration of the flat site might have ramifications for how we think human interactions and networks took shape in the vicinity of Copper Age tell settlements. In order to approach these issues, the first part of the paper deals with the definitions and problems, the second and the third part deal with the contexts themselves as uncovered in two trenches in the outer settlement. The final part provides a brief outlook and puts the ramifications of the features discussed into a broader perspective.
Conferences by Mehmet Karaucak
Program:
Ian Hodder (Stanford),
Keynote Lecture: 25 years of research at Çatalhöyük.
10.30 Coffee... more Program:
Ian Hodder (Stanford),
Keynote Lecture: 25 years of research at Çatalhöyük.
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Arkadiusz Marciniak (Poznań),
The Late Neolithic at Çatalhöyük. An integrated
perspective.
11.20 Çiler Çilingiroğlu (İzmir),
Mehmet Karaucak (Berlin),
Anything left to do here? An outline of a new research
programme at Çatalhöyük.
11.40 Douglas Baird (Liverpool),
The Konya Plain 14000-7000 cal BC; Pınarbaşı, Boncuklu
and the antecedents of Çatalhöyük.
12.00 Coffee break
12.15 Canan Çakırlar (Groningen),
Humans and animals in Çatalhöyük and elsewhere in
Neolithic-Chalcolithic Anatolia.
12.35 Lara González Carretero (London),
Dorian Q. Fuller (London),
Continuity and change: agricultural sustainability and
transformation through the millennia at Neolithic
Çatalhöyük (Turkey).
12.55 David C. Orton (York),
Continuity or change? Faunal evidence from Çatalhöyük
West.
13.15 Lunch break
14.30 Lee Clare (Berlin)
Göbekli Tepe and its part in the Upper Mesopotamian
„Late PPNA-hunter crisis“.
14.50 Michele Massa (Ankara),
The dynamic landscapes of the Konya Plain: change
and continuity across the Early and Middle Holocene.
15.10 Christoph Bachhuber (Oxford/Reading),
Beyond the Çarşamba Delta: A Regional Perspective on
Neolithization in the Konya Plain.
15.30 Eva Rosenstock (Berlin),
Jessica Hendy (Jena/York),
The culinary practices of Çatalhöyük: Insights from
proteins on pottery.
15.50 Coffee break
16.10 Ulf-Dietrich Schoop (Edinburgh),
Sinan Ünlüsoy (İzmir),
Çatalhöyük and the Anatolian Chalcolithic:
an outside view.
16.30 Mehmet Somel (Ankara),
A preliminary genomic analysis of the
Central Anatolian Neolithic
16.50 Aroa García Suárez (Oxford),
Resolving stratigraphy: 25 years of integrated
micromorphological research at Çatalhöyük
17.10 Final Remarks
Tuesday 7 May 2019
Closed meeting for Çatalhöyük team leaders
and members.
With contributions from :
Arkadiusz Marciniak, Çiler Çilingiroğlu
(Project Co-Directors)
Canan Çakırlar, David C. Orton, Ece Sezgin
(Zooarchaeology)
Mehmet Somel
(Ancient DNA)
Lara González Carretero, Marco Madella,
Carlos Santiago Marrero, Burhan Ulaş, Ece Dinçerler
(Archaeobotany)
Aroa García-Suárez
(Micromorphology)
Sara Perry
(Public Archaeology)
Ashley Lingle
(Conservation)
Sean Doyle, Didem Turan, Bejna Demir
(Lithics)
Marco Milella, Belinde Tibbetts
(Human Remains)
Ulf Dietrich Schoop, Sinan Ünlüsoy
(West Mound)
Beatrijs de Groot, Canan Karataş, Nuriye Gökçe
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Papers by Mehmet Karaucak
(jud. Giurgiu) in Romania, the lower layers of the Copper Age settlement
mound were reached during the campaigns of the last years. The recorded
features belong to the earliest occupation phase and represent the oldest
remains of the settlement. Reaching these layers now makes it possible to
record the development of the settlement without gaps and also to comprehensively
assess the relationship between the tell settlement itself and the
surrounding flat settlement. The integration of scientific studies on the
reconstruction
of the environment as well as archaeobotanical analyses of
material from different areas of the settlement also provide information on
the appearance of the landscape and shed light on the interactions between
humans and the environment in the 5th millennium BCE.
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/fbhd/article/view/81378/75479
ist wegen der zahlreichen Zeichen auf seinen
Wandsteinen ein herausragendes Denkmal des Neolithikums
in Europa. Sowohl die Darstellungen von Rindergespannen
und Wagen sowie die vegetabilen Zweigmuster
waren weiträumig bis in den Kaukasus verbreitet.
Erstmals wurde die Dokumentation des Grabes mittels
eines Laserscanners, der fotogrammetrischen Aufnahme
und digitaler Fotografie realisiert werden. Dabei konnten
auch bis dahin nicht erkannte Zeichen dokumentiert
werden.
Conferences by Mehmet Karaucak
Ian Hodder (Stanford),
Keynote Lecture: 25 years of research at Çatalhöyük.
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Arkadiusz Marciniak (Poznań),
The Late Neolithic at Çatalhöyük. An integrated
perspective.
11.20 Çiler Çilingiroğlu (İzmir),
Mehmet Karaucak (Berlin),
Anything left to do here? An outline of a new research
programme at Çatalhöyük.
11.40 Douglas Baird (Liverpool),
The Konya Plain 14000-7000 cal BC; Pınarbaşı, Boncuklu
and the antecedents of Çatalhöyük.
12.00 Coffee break
12.15 Canan Çakırlar (Groningen),
Humans and animals in Çatalhöyük and elsewhere in
Neolithic-Chalcolithic Anatolia.
12.35 Lara González Carretero (London),
Dorian Q. Fuller (London),
Continuity and change: agricultural sustainability and
transformation through the millennia at Neolithic
Çatalhöyük (Turkey).
12.55 David C. Orton (York),
Continuity or change? Faunal evidence from Çatalhöyük
West.
13.15 Lunch break
14.30 Lee Clare (Berlin)
Göbekli Tepe and its part in the Upper Mesopotamian
„Late PPNA-hunter crisis“.
14.50 Michele Massa (Ankara),
The dynamic landscapes of the Konya Plain: change
and continuity across the Early and Middle Holocene.
15.10 Christoph Bachhuber (Oxford/Reading),
Beyond the Çarşamba Delta: A Regional Perspective on
Neolithization in the Konya Plain.
15.30 Eva Rosenstock (Berlin),
Jessica Hendy (Jena/York),
The culinary practices of Çatalhöyük: Insights from
proteins on pottery.
15.50 Coffee break
16.10 Ulf-Dietrich Schoop (Edinburgh),
Sinan Ünlüsoy (İzmir),
Çatalhöyük and the Anatolian Chalcolithic:
an outside view.
16.30 Mehmet Somel (Ankara),
A preliminary genomic analysis of the
Central Anatolian Neolithic
16.50 Aroa García Suárez (Oxford),
Resolving stratigraphy: 25 years of integrated
micromorphological research at Çatalhöyük
17.10 Final Remarks
Tuesday 7 May 2019
Closed meeting for Çatalhöyük team leaders
and members.
With contributions from :
Arkadiusz Marciniak, Çiler Çilingiroğlu
(Project Co-Directors)
Canan Çakırlar, David C. Orton, Ece Sezgin
(Zooarchaeology)
Mehmet Somel
(Ancient DNA)
Lara González Carretero, Marco Madella,
Carlos Santiago Marrero, Burhan Ulaş, Ece Dinçerler
(Archaeobotany)
Aroa García-Suárez
(Micromorphology)
Sara Perry
(Public Archaeology)
Ashley Lingle
(Conservation)
Sean Doyle, Didem Turan, Bejna Demir
(Lithics)
Marco Milella, Belinde Tibbetts
(Human Remains)
Ulf Dietrich Schoop, Sinan Ünlüsoy
(West Mound)
Beatrijs de Groot, Canan Karataş, Nuriye Gökçe
(jud. Giurgiu) in Romania, the lower layers of the Copper Age settlement
mound were reached during the campaigns of the last years. The recorded
features belong to the earliest occupation phase and represent the oldest
remains of the settlement. Reaching these layers now makes it possible to
record the development of the settlement without gaps and also to comprehensively
assess the relationship between the tell settlement itself and the
surrounding flat settlement. The integration of scientific studies on the
reconstruction
of the environment as well as archaeobotanical analyses of
material from different areas of the settlement also provide information on
the appearance of the landscape and shed light on the interactions between
humans and the environment in the 5th millennium BCE.
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/fbhd/article/view/81378/75479
ist wegen der zahlreichen Zeichen auf seinen
Wandsteinen ein herausragendes Denkmal des Neolithikums
in Europa. Sowohl die Darstellungen von Rindergespannen
und Wagen sowie die vegetabilen Zweigmuster
waren weiträumig bis in den Kaukasus verbreitet.
Erstmals wurde die Dokumentation des Grabes mittels
eines Laserscanners, der fotogrammetrischen Aufnahme
und digitaler Fotografie realisiert werden. Dabei konnten
auch bis dahin nicht erkannte Zeichen dokumentiert
werden.
Ian Hodder (Stanford),
Keynote Lecture: 25 years of research at Çatalhöyük.
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Arkadiusz Marciniak (Poznań),
The Late Neolithic at Çatalhöyük. An integrated
perspective.
11.20 Çiler Çilingiroğlu (İzmir),
Mehmet Karaucak (Berlin),
Anything left to do here? An outline of a new research
programme at Çatalhöyük.
11.40 Douglas Baird (Liverpool),
The Konya Plain 14000-7000 cal BC; Pınarbaşı, Boncuklu
and the antecedents of Çatalhöyük.
12.00 Coffee break
12.15 Canan Çakırlar (Groningen),
Humans and animals in Çatalhöyük and elsewhere in
Neolithic-Chalcolithic Anatolia.
12.35 Lara González Carretero (London),
Dorian Q. Fuller (London),
Continuity and change: agricultural sustainability and
transformation through the millennia at Neolithic
Çatalhöyük (Turkey).
12.55 David C. Orton (York),
Continuity or change? Faunal evidence from Çatalhöyük
West.
13.15 Lunch break
14.30 Lee Clare (Berlin)
Göbekli Tepe and its part in the Upper Mesopotamian
„Late PPNA-hunter crisis“.
14.50 Michele Massa (Ankara),
The dynamic landscapes of the Konya Plain: change
and continuity across the Early and Middle Holocene.
15.10 Christoph Bachhuber (Oxford/Reading),
Beyond the Çarşamba Delta: A Regional Perspective on
Neolithization in the Konya Plain.
15.30 Eva Rosenstock (Berlin),
Jessica Hendy (Jena/York),
The culinary practices of Çatalhöyük: Insights from
proteins on pottery.
15.50 Coffee break
16.10 Ulf-Dietrich Schoop (Edinburgh),
Sinan Ünlüsoy (İzmir),
Çatalhöyük and the Anatolian Chalcolithic:
an outside view.
16.30 Mehmet Somel (Ankara),
A preliminary genomic analysis of the
Central Anatolian Neolithic
16.50 Aroa García Suárez (Oxford),
Resolving stratigraphy: 25 years of integrated
micromorphological research at Çatalhöyük
17.10 Final Remarks
Tuesday 7 May 2019
Closed meeting for Çatalhöyük team leaders
and members.
With contributions from :
Arkadiusz Marciniak, Çiler Çilingiroğlu
(Project Co-Directors)
Canan Çakırlar, David C. Orton, Ece Sezgin
(Zooarchaeology)
Mehmet Somel
(Ancient DNA)
Lara González Carretero, Marco Madella,
Carlos Santiago Marrero, Burhan Ulaş, Ece Dinçerler
(Archaeobotany)
Aroa García-Suárez
(Micromorphology)
Sara Perry
(Public Archaeology)
Ashley Lingle
(Conservation)
Sean Doyle, Didem Turan, Bejna Demir
(Lithics)
Marco Milella, Belinde Tibbetts
(Human Remains)
Ulf Dietrich Schoop, Sinan Ünlüsoy
(West Mound)
Beatrijs de Groot, Canan Karataş, Nuriye Gökçe