- Netherlands
Hijlke Buitenhuis
University of Cape Town, Groninger Institute of Archaeology, Department Member
- Palaeolithic Europe, Palaeolithic archaeology, Mesolithic archaeology, Prehistoric transitions, Environmental archaeology, Archaeozoology, Pleistocene fauna, Palaeoclimate, Refugia and recolonisation, Spatial analysis, Palaeolithic art and symbolism, Prehistoric Archaeology, Prehistory, Palaeolithic Archaeology, and Mesolithic Archaeologyedit
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Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, Archaeology, Geology, Paleontology, Anthropology, and 21 moreHuman Evolution, Glass, Turkey, Lithic Technology, Human, Humans, Manufacture, Behaviour, Raw materials, Settlement, Habitat, Fossils, Animals, Number, Biological evolution, Document, Well, Human Settlement, Hominidae, Plein Air, and Technological Evolution
This study presents the results of a major data integration project bringing together primary archaeozoological data for over 200,000 faunal specimens excavated from seventeen sites in Turkey spanning the Epipaleolithic through... more
This study presents the results of a major data integration project bringing together primary archaeozoological data for over 200,000 faunal specimens excavated from seventeen sites in Turkey spanning the Epipaleolithic through Chalcolithic periods, c. 18,000-4,000 cal BC, in order to document the initial westward spread of domestic livestock across Neolithic central and western Turkey. From these shared datasets we demonstrate that the westward expansion of Neolithic subsistence technologies combined multiple routes and pulses but did not involve a set ‘package’ comprising all four livestock species including sheep, goat, cattle and pig. Instead, Neolithic animal economies in the study regions are shown to be more diverse than deduced previously using quantitatively more limited datasets. Moreover, during the transition to agro-pastoral economies interactions between domestic stock and local wild fauna continued. Through publication of datasets with Open Context (opencontext.org), this project emphasizes the benefits of data sharing and web-based dissemination of large primary data sets for exploring major questions in archaeology (Alternative Language Abstract S1).
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Buitenhuis, H and Choyke, AM and Martin, LA and Bartosiewicz, L and Mashkour, ME (Eds). (2005) Archaeozoology of the Near East VI: Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent... more
Buitenhuis, H and Choyke, AM and Martin, LA and Bartosiewicz, L and Mashkour, ME (Eds). (2005) Archaeozoology of the Near East VI: Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas. ARC Publications 123. ARC Publications: Groningen. ... Full text not available from this repository. ... Archaeozoology of the Near East VI: Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on the archaeozoology of southwestern Asia and adjacent areas.
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Abstract: A small faunal assemblage was recovered from the soundings at the small mound of Damishliyya, situated about two kilometres north of Tell Hamman et-Turkman, under the auspices of Amsterdam's Archaeological Mission to Syria... more
Abstract: A small faunal assemblage was recovered from the soundings at the small mound of Damishliyya, situated about two kilometres north of Tell Hamman et-Turkman, under the auspices of Amsterdam's Archaeological Mission to Syria in September and October 1984 ...