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3. Kamjan Et Al- 2015- ASWA Conference Proceedings University of Groningen Zooarchaeology of the Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic site of Qasr-e Ahmad (Iran) Kamjan, Safoora; Mashkour, Marjan; Kharanaghi, Hossein Azizi Published in: Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version below. Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Publication date: 2018 Link to publication in University of Groningen/UMCG research database Citation for published version (APA): Kamjan, S., Mashkour, M., & Kharanaghi, H. A. (2018). Zooarchaeology of the Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic site of Qasr-e Ahmad (Iran). In C. Çakırlar, J. Chahoud, R. Berthon, & S. Pilaar Birch (Eds.), Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia : Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium of the ICAZ Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas Working Group (pp. 27-50). Barkhuis/University of Groningen. Copyright Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Downloaded from the University of Groningen/UMCG research database (Pure): http://www.rug.nl/research/portal. For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to 10 maximum. Download date: 28-09-2021 ARCHAEOZOOLOGY OF THE NEAR EAST XII Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium of the ICAZ Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas Working Group, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, June 14-15 2015, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Edited by C. Çakırlar J. Chahoud R. Berthon S. Pilaar Birch Archaeozoology of the Near East XII Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium of the ICAZ Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas Working Group, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, June 14-15 2015, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Edited by C. Çakırlar, J. Chahoud, R. Berthon & S. Pilaar Birch Barkhuis Publishing & University of Groningen Groningen, 2018 Book design, cover design and typesetting: Siebe Boersma, Groningen Institute of Archaeology Photo cover: Ceramic vessel from Late Neolithic Köşk Höyük depicting a scene of equid (hydruntine) hunting (photo by A.Öztan). See Chapter 4. rijksuniversiteit groningen institute groningen of archaeology ISBN 9789492444745 Copyright © 2018 the authors and the Groningen Institute of Archaeology All rights reserved. No part of this publication or the information contained therein may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically, mechanically, by photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the copyright holders. V Contents Preface VII Hijlke Buitenhuis and ASWA VIII List of presentations IX 1. A Return to Groningen – ASWA XII and the future of archaeozoology in Southwest Asia (and Adjacent Areas) 1 Melinda A. Zeder 2. ‘Feeding cities’? – Preliminary notes on the provisioning of animal products at Tel Bet Yerah, Israel 13 Alice Berger 3. Zooarchaeology of the Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic site of Qasr-e Ahmad (Iran) 27 Kamjan Safoora, Mashkour Marjan, Mohaseb F. Azadeh, Fathi Homa, Azizi Kharanaghi Hossein 4. Horse and hemione hunting at Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic Köşk Höyük, central Turkey 41 Benjamin S. Arbuckle; Aliye Öztan 5. Fishing and herding in the Nile Delta during the Predynastic (4th millennium BC) 59 Joséphine Lesur 6. Archaeozoological investigation of the site of Shengavit, Armenia (Based on the archaeological excavations of 1965-1980; 2003-2007) 73 Nina Manaseryan 7. Invisible donkeys in ancient Mesopotamia: New insights from modern studies in Sub-Saharan Africa 79 Jill Goulder 8. Kura-Araxes exploitation of animal resources in Northwestern Iran and Nakhchivan 91 Hossein Davoudi, Rémi Berthon, Azadeh Mohaseb, Shiva Sheikhi, Akbar Abedi, Marjan Mashkour 9. Unravelling the meaning of faunal assemblages in an early urban domestic neighbourhood: worked bone frequencies from the Early Bronze Age III neighbourhood at eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel 109 Haskel J. Greenfield, Annie Brown, Itzhaq Shai, Aren M. Maeir 10. Animal exploitation at Iron Age Kinet Höyük (Turkey) between 700-550 BC 123 Canan Çakırlar, Jort Bosman, Salima Ikram 11. Hunting hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus) in Sinai during Persian times (6th to 4th century BC) 143 Louis Chaix VI Archaeozoology of the Near East XII 12. Persian period dog burials of Beirut: morphology, health, mortality and mortuary practices 153 Yasha Hourani 13. Subsistence and ritual: A note on the Achaemenid faunal remains from the site of Kinik Höyük, Southern Cappadocia, Turkey 185 Pam J. Crabtree, Douglas V. Campana, Andrea Trameri, Nancy Highcock, Lorenzo d’Alfonso 14. Ottoman Turkish influences on animal exploitation in 16th–17th century Hungary 191 László Bartosiewicz, Erika Gál 15. Striking new paths – Distinguishing ancient Ovis orientalis from its modern domestic descendant (Karakul breed) applying geometric and traditional morphometric approaches to the astragalus 207 Nadja Pöllath, Paul Alibert, Renate Schafberg, Joris Peters 16. Caprine age estimations: Methodological considerations through the study of Cretan Agrimi goat mandibles (Capra aegagrus cretica) 227 Moussab Albesso Bibliography of Dr. Hijlke Buitenhuis 241 Esther E. Scheele VII Preface by the editors We grew up in the ASWA Working Group. We were in our early 20s, still doing our MAs or fresh graduates when we attended our first ASWA meeting. ASWA was first a school; a place where, for the first time, we had the opportunity to have a drink or two with the great scientists we knew from publications, but wondered what they looked like, how they acted, and whether they would mind answering couple of questions. ASWA quickly became a platform where we could pres- ent our own research, participate in debates with peers, and expand our scholarly network. At some point ASWA became a place to meet good friends, discuss research plans with close colleagues, and initiate new collaborations. When we got our first positions, it was only ‘natural’ that we all came up with the idea to host a meeting at our respective home institutions at about the same time in early 2013. One of us (CC) had the most urgent ‘excuse’: Dr. Hijlke Buitenhuis, one of the founders of ASWA Working Group, was to officially retire in 2015 –a perfect moment to celebrate this most dedicated scholar of archaeology of Southwest Asia and bring the bi-annual meeting back to its birthplace exactly 25 years after it was started by Hijlke and his mentor Prof. Dr. Anneke Clason. This is the short story of how the 12th Meeting of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ) Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas Working Group came to be. The months leading up to the meeting were thrilling. We received so many abstract submissions, mostly for oral presentations, that we had to introduce a session with 3-minute ‘lightning’ session alongside the poster session in order to maintain ASWA’s (implicit) policy of inclusivity. ASWA meetings are for everyone; this includes early-stage students, independent scholars, and retired experts. In the days and weeks before the meeting, colleagues from as far as the US made last-minute calls to register just so that they could attend the meeting without presentations. Student volunteers and GIA staff came to the rescue. We now appreciate the meaning of the presumed cliché “would not have been possible without” more than ever: Yes, none of it would have been possible without the help of student volunteers, Francesca Slim and Rianne Breider; volunteer Joris Oddens; and GIA-zooarchaeology assistants Youri van den Hurk and the magnificent Esther Scheele. We received generous funds from the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (and actually still do) and from the Archéorient, as well as BETA Analytics. With these funds and the help of participation fees, we were able to offer financial aid to a number of student and early-career scientist presenters especially from Southwest Asia. In a large number of sessions, including a lightning and a poster session, in three days, we discussed a huge variety of topics pertaining to humans and other animals in ancient Southwest Asia and beyond. We were enlightened by a talk by Dr. Wietske Prummel, Emeritus, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, about the archaeozoology of terps and the northern Netherlands. The most outstanding and perhaps the most import- ant in terms of ASWA’s sustainability was the final round table on the future of work in the troubled, war- torn region, which was the brainchild of Jwana Chahoud. Here, the challenges ahead were openly discussed and recorded (also see Zeder, this volume). We visited the GIA zooarchaeology collections, escaped to the town’s market during lunch for some fried cod and mussels, ‘borreled’ in the Dutch style, and celebrated Hijlke’s lifetime achievements. Some of us stayed longer and joined the excursion to megalithic tombs and a prehistoric village in Drenthe (Thanks also to our drivers on the excursion; Dr. Nimrod Marom and Christian Küchelmann). We were honored to organize the 12th ASWA meeting, and we are honored to present the Proceedings herein, also sponsored by the Groningen Institute of Archaeology and supported by its staff. Esther Scheele, Youri van den Hurk, and Francis Koolstra helped with the copy-editing, Siebe Boersma handled the design and the layout. We thank them all for their fantastic and flawless work. All contributions have been peer-re- viewed by at least two anonymous reviewers. Canan Çakırlar, Remi Berthon, Jwana Chahoud, and Suzanne Pilaar Birch VIII Hijlke Buitenhuis and ASWA Archaeozoologist and archaeologist The palaeontologist Bert Boekschoten introduced Hijlke Buitenhuis to Anneke Clason in 1974.
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