Some Phrygian Plant and Insect Remains from Kerkenes Dağ, Central Anatolia (Turkey)

Smith, Alexia; Branting, Scott

doi:10.14237/ebl.5.2014.117

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“…Analysis of botanical remains from the Palatial Complex uncovered numerous fruit pits, mainly cornelian cherry ( Cornus mas ) but also one cherry pit ( Prunus cf. avium ) (Smith and Branting ). Although these likely were gathered as wild fruit, their frequency in the Palatial Complex, and their absence from Urban Block 8, suggests differential access to certain food items for members of society of different social and economic status.…”

Section: Water Use In the City: Food Production Cuisine Craft Produmentioning

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Production requires water: Material remains of the hydrosocial cycle in an ancient Anatolian city

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Marston

2019

Economic Anthropology

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Kerkenes is the largest pre‐Hellenistic city in Turkey. It covers 2.5 square kilometers and is enclosed by a 7‐km‐long stone wall. This Iron Age, Phrygian city was well planned, only inhabited for forty to sixty years, and then purposefully destroyed and abandoned. Not only were the city wall and architecture planned but interconnected water management features for the city were also part of how the city was conceived. While some might view the management of water in the city as an indication that the social elite wanted to control the water, the available evidence does not support this idea. Drawing on Linton and Budds's hydrosocial cycle, this article uses water as a lens to examine hydrosocial relations at Kerkenes, specifically instances where water is part of the dialectical and relational process in the production of food, crafts, health, and politics. This article argues that using water as a lens can help archaeologists find traces of sociocultural, economic, and political relationships and may not only reveal insights into water negotiations in the past but also inform contemporary water concerns.

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Production requires water: Material remains of the hydrosocial cycle in an ancient Anatolian city

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2019

Economic Anthropology

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“…avium) in the palatial complex of the city (Fig. 2; Smith and Branting, 2014). Certainly cornelian cherry, and possibly cherry, grew wild locally and was available for seasonal collection.…”

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“…City plan of Kerkenes, with areas of archaeobotanical sampling marked in dark grey; trenches TR27, TR28, and TR29 provide the new data presented in this article, while Palatial Complex finds are reported inSmith and Branting, 2014. …”

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Agricultural adaptation to highland climate in Iron Age Anatolia

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2016

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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As polities grow and expand into environments distinct from their homeland, settlers moving to new landscapes may need to adapt familiar agricultural strategies to a new climate. This article explores one such case through the site of Kerkenes, a fortified, mountaintop urban center of Iron Age Central Anatolia evidently founded by Phrygian settlers from further west. New archaeobotanical data from Kerkenes indicate a set of agricultural practices broadly similar to that of other contemporary sites in Anatolia. Farmers at Kerkenes, however, appear to have prioritized bread wheat cultivation over that of barley, in stark contrast to agricultural strategies at Gordion, capital of the Phrygian kingdom. Placing Kerkenes in its environmental and economic landscape suggests that farmers took advantage of favorable rainfall patterns to emphasize a preferred cereal crop, deploying new strategies to minimize local subsistence risk. These results highlight the potential of regional syntheses of agricultural practices within large territorial states to illuminate the environmental footprints and agricultural signatures of individual polities.

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Wild-Growing Species in the Service of Medicine: Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Production

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Stanković

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Environmental Challenges and Solutions

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Some Phrygian Plant and Insect Remains from Kerkenes Dağ, Central Anatolia (Turkey)

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Production requires water: Material remains of the hydrosocial cycle in an ancient Anatolian city

Production requires water: Material remains of the hydrosocial cycle in an ancient Anatolian city

Agricultural adaptation to highland climate in Iron Age Anatolia

Wild-Growing Species in the Service of Medicine: Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Production

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