Past Environments in the Transition to Agriculture: Sampling in the Taş Tepeler area

The project explores the relationships between palaeoenvironmental change and land use transformation from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) to the present day in southeast Anatolia, employing landscape connectivity approaches.

South east Anatolia has one of the richest archaeological records for the PPN and is renowned for its large settlements with monumental stone architecture. Recent research, largely based on global climatic signatures, has put forward environmental factors as the main drivers of the broad range of socio-cultural and economic shifts observed during the early Holocene in the region.

To better understand the landscape, palaeoclimatic and palaeoecological context of PPN occupations in the Urfa refgion, this project contextualises the evidence of the Taş Tepeler Project in their contemporary landscape.