Agricultural innovation and resilience in a long-lived early farming community: the 1,500-year sequence at Neolithic to early Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia
Summary. Archaeobotanical evidence from Çatalhöyük reveals how an early farming community sustained itself for 1,500 years through continuous agricultural innovation. The community's resilience came from three factors: a diverse initial crop spectrum that provided options for later adoption, household-level experimentation enabled by modular social structure, and an agglomerated settlement that allowed successful innovations to spread community-wide. Minor crops and contaminants were recruited as major staples over time, demonstrating flexible cropping strategies that sustained long-term productivity.
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Bogaard, A., Filipović, D., Fairbairn, A., Green, L., Stroud, E., Fuller, D. Q., & Charles, M.. (2017). Agricultural innovation and resilience in a long-lived early farming community: the 1,500-year sequence at Neolithic to early Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia. Anatolian Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0066154617000072
Bogaard, Amy, et al. “Agricultural innovation and resilience in a long-lived early farming community: the 1,500-year sequence at Neolithic to early Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia.” Anatolian Studies, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0066154617000072.
Bogaard, Amy, Dragana Filipović, Andrew Fairbairn, Laura Green, Elizabeth Stroud, Dorian Q. Fuller, and Michael Charles. 2017. “Agricultural innovation and resilience in a long-lived early farming community: the 1,500-year sequence at Neolithic to early Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia.” Anatolian Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0066154617000072.
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- 2026-04-28