Levent Atici
Also known as: A. Levent Atici
I am an anthropologically trained archaeologist with an expertise in zooarchaeology. My research centers on the archaeology of two revolutionary socioeconomic transformations of societies in Southwest Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean. The first transformation occurred during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene transition when humans shifted from hunting wild animals and gathering wild plants to domesticating their variants—the Neolithic Revolution. The second dramatic change took place in SW Asia when small villages and towns metamorphosed into first cities and states with institutionalized leadership, centralized administrative bureaucracies, stratified societal organization, and specialized agropastoral economies—the Urban Revolution. My research covers the full spectrum of human-animal interactions from hunting to taming to large-scale management and industrial production of animals diachronically from the Epipaleolithic to the Bronze Age.
Works (21)
Updated: April 4th, 2024 09:00
2022 journal article
A novel lineage of the Capra genus discovered in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey using ancient genomics
ELife.
open access via doi.org (publisher)
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2022 article
A novel lineage of the Capra genus discovered in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey using ancient genomics
BioRxiv.
Contributors: K. Daly *, B. Arbuckle *, C. Rossi *, V. Mattiangeli *, P. Lawlor*, M. Mashkour *, E. Sauer *, J. Lesur *
TL;DR:
A novel lineage best represented by a ∼14,000 year old 2.59X genome sequenced from specimen Direkli4 is found, and this newly discovered Capra lineage is a sister clade to the Caucasian tur species (Capra cylindricornis and Capra caucasica), both now limited to the Caucasus region.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2018 journal article
The relationship between the phosphate and structural carbonate fractionation of fallow deer bioapatite in tooth enamel
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 33(2), 151–164.
TL;DR:
This is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between ionic forms of oxygen (phosphate oxygen and structural carbonate) in fallow deer dental enamel and the new equation will allow direct comparison with other herbivore data.
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2017 journal article
Spread of domestic animals across Neolithic western Anatolia: New zooarchaeological evidence from Uğurlu Höyük, the island of Gökçeada, Turkey
PLOS ONE, 12(10), e0186519.
Ed(s): P. Biehl
TL;DR:
Using an island site as a case study, it is independently confirmed that the dispersal of early farming was a polynucleated and multidirectional phenomenon that did not sweep across the land, replace everything on its way, and deliver the same “Neolithic package” everywhere.
(via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2014 book
Current Research at Kültepe-Kanesh: An Interdisciplinary and Integrative Approach to Trade Networks, Internationalism, and Identity
In L. Atici (Ed.), Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplemental Series 4. Atlanta, GA: Lockwood Press (the American Schools of Oriental Research.
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2014 chapter
Food and Ethnicity at Kültepe-Kanesh: Preliminary Zooarchaeological Evidence
In Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplement Series 4 (Vol. 4, pp. 195–211).
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2014 chapter
Introduction: Integrating Current Research at Kültepe-Kanesh
In Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplement Series 4 (Vol. 4, pp. 1–4).
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2013 journal article
Archaeobotanical evidence for trade in hazelnut (Corylus sp.) at Middle Bronze Age Kültepe (c. 1950-1830 b.c.), Kayseri Province, Turkey
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 1–8.
Contributors: A. Fairbairn *, F. Kulakoǧlu & *
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2013 chapter
Commingled Bone Assemblages: Insights from Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy of a Bonebed at Karain B Cave, SW Turkey
In A. Osterholtz, K. Baustian, & D. Martin (Eds.), Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains: Working Toward Improved Theory, Method, and Data (pp. 213–254). New York: Springer.
Ed(s): A. Osterholtz, K. Baustian & D. Martin
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2013 journal article
Initial diversity in sheep and goat management in Neolithic Southwestern Asia
Levant, 45, 219–235.
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2012 journal article
Other People's Data: A Demonstration of the Imperative of Publishing Primary Data
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 1–19.
Contributors: * , S. Kansa *, J. Lev-Tov & E. Kansa *
TL;DR:
In examining how researchers use legacy data, this paper highlights interpretive issues, data integrity concerns, and data documentation needs and proposes greater professional recognition for data dissemination, favoring models of “data publication” over “ data sharing” or “Data archiving.”
(via Semantic Scholar)
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2009 journal article
Human subsistence change in the Late Pleistocene Mediterranean basin
http://www.waspress.co.uk/journals/beforefarming/journal_20091/abstracts/index.php
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2009 journal article
Implications of Age Structures for Epipaleolithic Hunting Strategies in the Western Taurus Mountains, Southwest Turkey
44(1), 13–39.
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2009 journal article
Specialization & diversification
Specialization & diversification. http://www.waspress.co.uk/journals/beforefarming/journal_20093/abstracts/index.php
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2009 book
Specialization, Intensification, and Diversification in Animal Exploitation Strategies during the Late Pleistocene in the Mediterranean Basin
In Specialization, Intensification, and Diversification in Animal Exploitation Strategies during the Late Pleistocene in the Mediterranean Basin (Vol. 1, 2, p. 3).
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2009 journal article
Zooarchaeological Contributions to Near Eastern Prehistory
Anthropozoologica, 44, 9–11. http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/foffice/science/science/DocScientifique/publications/presentation/listeParution/ficheParution.xsp?PARUTION_ID=2066&PUBLICATION_ID=133&THEMPUB_ID=149&idx=48&nav=tableau1
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2009 book
Zooarchaeological contributions to reconstructing cultural systems
(Vol. 44). http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/foffice/science/science/DocScientifique/publications/presentation/listeParution/ficheParution.xsp?PARUTION_ID=2066&PUBLICATION_ID=133&THEMPUB_ID=149&idx=48&nav=tableau1
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2006 journal article
Middle Range Theory in Paleolithic Archaeology
Journal of Taphonomy, 4, 29–45. http://www.journaltaphonomy.com/JT-articles/2006/1/jt41.pdf
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2006 journal article
Who let the dogs out?
Anatolian Archaeological Studies XV:121-131.
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2005 journal article
Centralized or decentralized
Anatolian Archaeological Studies, XIV, 119–127.
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
2003 journal article
Early Bronze Age fauna from Kaman Kalehöyük (Central Turkey)
Anatolian Archaeological Studies, XII, 99–102.
Source: ORCID
Added: March 22, 2024
Employment
Updated: February 1st, 2024 09:26
2024 - present
North Carolina State University Raleigh, Wake, US
Associate Vice Provost for Student-Centered Initiatives
Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs
2020 - 2023
University of Nevada Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV, US
Professor
Anthropology
2019 - 2023
University of Nevada Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV, US
Executive Director of Undergraduate Research
Office of Undergraduate Research
2013 - 2019
University of Nevada Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV, US
Associate Professor
Anthropology
2007 - 2013
University of Nevada Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV, US
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Education
Updated: July 20th, 2014 14:03
Harvard University Cambridge, MA, US
Ph. D.
Anthropology
Harvard University Cambridge, MA, US
M.A.
Anthropology
Ankara University Ankara, TR
M.A.
Archaeology
Ankara University Ankara, TR
B.A.
Prehistory
Funding History
Funding history based on the linked ORCID record. Updated: February 28th, 2024 10:17
grant
April 1, 2022 - April 1, 2027
Enhancing the Transition of COVID-19-Affected Students from Undergraduate to Graduate Careers in STEM through Multi-Year Undergraduate Research Experiences
National Science Foundation
grant
July 1, 2015 - July 1, 2016
Neolithization of Europe: New Zooarchaeological and Stable Isotope Evidence from Uğurlu Höyük, Gökçeada, Turkey
National Geographic Society
grant
July 1, 2014 - December 1, 2015
Zooarchaeology of Urban Animal Exploitation in Light of Textual Record from Kültepe/Kanesh, Turkey
Wenner-Gren Foundation
grant
April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2018
Rise and Transition of a City State in Anatolia in the 3rd and the 2nd Millennium B.C.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
grant
July 1, 2011 - July 1, 2012
Zooarchaeology of Kültepe/Kanesh with an Emphasis on Urban Animal Exploitation and Ethnicity
National Geographic Society
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