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Çayönü is a
Neolithic settlement in southern
Turkey inhabited around 7200 to 6600 BC. It is located forty kilometres north-west of
Diyarbakır, at the foot of the
Taurus mountains. It lies near the
Bogazcay, a tributary of the upper
Tigris River and the
Bestakot, an intermittent stream.
Archeology
The first excavations were conducted by
Robert John Braidwood between 1964 and 1978, and later between 1985 and 1991. The settlement covers the periods of the
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), the
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), and the
Pottery Neolithic (PN).
The stratigraphy is divided into the following subphases according to the dominant architecture:
- round, PPNA
- grill, PPNA
- channeled, Early PPNB
- cobble paved, Middle PPNB
- cell, Late PPNB
- large room, final PPNB
Origin of Domestication
Animal Life - Domestication of Pigs
Çayönü is probably the place where the
pig (
Sus scrofa) was first domesticated. The wild fauna include wild boar, wild sheep, wild goat and cervids. The Neolithic environment included marshes and swamps near the Bogazcay, open wood, patches of
steppe and almond-
pistachio forest-steppe to the south.
Farming - Cultivation of Cereals
According to
Der Spiegel of either
6 March or
3 June 2006, the
Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research in
Cologne has discovered that the genetically common ancestor of 68 contemporary types of cereal still grows as a wild plant on the slopes of Mount Karaca (
Karacadag), which is located in close vicinity to Çayönü. (Compare to information on cereal use in
PPNA).
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