Zooarchaeology of Neolithic Southeast Europe and western Anatolia

This zooarchaeological dataset contains new data from Neolithic Fikirtepe in Istanbul, Turkey. Data interpretation can be found in the related publication on the "Zooarchaeology of Fikirtepe: A re-evaluation of Boessneck and von den Driesch 1979 and new data on mortality, arthropathies, and molluscs" by Çakırlar in Özdoğan in press. The new data consist of the archaeomalacological data which were discussed preliminarily in Çakırlar 2013 and 2015, data on tooth eruption and wear patterns of main mammal taxa; sheep, goat, cattle (following Grant 1982) fallow deer (following Bowen et al. 2016), and pig (following Grant for pig mandibular teeth, Lemoine et al. 2014 for pig maxillary teeth) metric data for pig teeth data on deformations on cattle autopodia (following Bartosiewicz et al.). Çakırlar, C., 2013. Rethinking Neolithic subsistence at the gateway to Europe with new archaeozoological evidence from Istanbul. Barely Surviving or More than Enough, pp.59-79. Çakırlar, C., 2015. Adaptation, identity, and innovation in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Western Anatolia (6800–3000 cal. BC): The evidence from aquatic mollusk shells. Quaternary International, 390, pp.117-125. (2022)