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 (29)
2024 journal article
Ancient mitogenomes from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Central Anatolia and the effects of a Late Neolithic bottleneck in sheep (Ovis aries)
Science Advances, 10(15).
Contributors: E. Sandoval-Castellanos *, A. Hare *, A. Lin *, E. Dimopoulos *, K. Daly *, S. Geiger*, V. Mullin *, I. Wiechmann*
2024 journal article
The 10,000-year biocultural history of fallow deer and its implications for conservation policy
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(8).
Contributors: K. Baker *, H. Miller *, S. Doherty *, H. Gray *, J. Daujat *, C. Çakirlar *, N. Spassov *, K. Trantalidou *
2022 journal article
A novel lineage of the Capra genus discovered in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey using ancient genomics
ELife, 11.
Contributors: K. Daly *, B. Arbuckle *, C. Rossi *, V. Mattiangeli *, P. Lawlor*, M. Mashkour *, E. Sauer *, J. Lesur *
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 *
2021 journal article
LATE PLEISTOCENE AND EARLY HOLOCENE FINDS FROM THE 2020 TRIAL EXCAVATION AT GIRMELER, SOUTHWESTERN TURKEY
Anatolica, 47, 299–320.
2019 journal article
Archaeological analysis in the information age: Guidelines for maximizing the reach, comprehensiveness, and longevity of data
Advances in Archaeological Practice, 8(1), 40–52.
Contributors: S. Kansa *, * , E. Kansa * & R. Meadow *
2019 journal article
Spread of domestic animals across Neolithic western Anatolia: New stable isotope evidence from Uğurlu Höyük, the island of Gökçeada, Turkey
PLoS ONE, 14(10).
Contributors: S. Pilaar Birch *, * & B. Erdoğu *
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.
Contributors: H. Miller *, C. Chenery *, A. Lamb *, H. Sloane *, R. Carden *, * , N. Sykes *
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.
Contributors: , S. Pilaar Birch * & B. Erdoğu *
Ed(s): P. Biehl
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.
2014 journal article
Data sharing reveals complexity in the westward spread of domestic animals across Neolithic Turkey
PLoS ONE, 9(6).
Contributors: B. Arbuckle *, S. Kansa *, E. Kansa *, D. Orton *, C. Çakirlar *, L. Gourichon *, * , A. Galik *
2014 chapter
Food and Ethnicity at Kültepe-Kanesh: Preliminary Zooarchaeological Evidence
In Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplement Series 4 (Vol. 4, pp. 195–211).
2014 chapter
Introduction: Integrating Current Research at Kültepe-Kanesh
In Journal of Cuneiform Studies Supplement Series 4 (Vol. 4, pp. 1–4).
2014 chapter
Tracing inequality from assur to kultepe/kanesh: Merchants, donkeys, and clay tablets
In Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World (pp. 231–250).
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, 23(2), 167–174.
Contributors: A. Fairbairn *, F. Kulakoǧlu & *
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
2013 chapter
Commingled bone assemblages: Insights from zooarchaeology and taphonomy of a bone bed at Karain B Cave, SW Turkey
In Commingled and Disarticulated Human Remains: Working Toward Improved Theory, Method, and Data (Vol. 9781461475606, pp. 213–253).
2013 journal article
Initial diversity in sheep and goat management in Neolithic Southwestern Asia
Levant, 45(2), 219–235.
2012 journal article
Other People's Data: A Demonstration of the Imperative of Publishing Primary Data
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 20(4), 663–681.
Contributors: , S. Kansa *, J. Lev-Tov & E. Kansa * *
2009 journal article
Human subsistence change in the Late Pleistocene Mediterranean basin
http://www.waspress.co.uk/journals/beforefarming/journal_20091/abstracts/index.php
2009 journal article
Implications of Age Structures for Epipaleolithic Hunting Strategies in the Western Taurus Mountains, Southwest Turkey
44(1), 13–39.
2009 journal article
Specialization & diversification
Specialization & diversification. http://www.waspress.co.uk/journals/beforefarming/journal_20093/abstracts/index.php
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).
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
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
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
2006 journal article
Who let the dogs out?
Anatolian Archaeological Studies XV:121-131.
2005 journal article
Centralized or decentralized
Anatolian Archaeological Studies, XIV, 119–127.
2003 journal article
Early Bronze Age fauna from Kaman Kalehöyük (Central Turkey)
Anatolian Archaeological Studies, XII, 99–102.
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