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Ritual in the landscape: evidence from Pınarbaşı in the seventh-millennium cal BC Konya Plain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Douglas Baird ,
Denise Carruthers ,
Andrew Fairbairn  and
Jessica Pearson
Douglas Baird*
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK (Email: dbaird@liverpool.ac.uk; jessica.pearson@liverpool.ac.uk)
Denise Carruthers
Affiliation:
Honorary Research Fellow, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK (Email: denise@permedia.ca)
Andrew Fairbairn
Affiliation:
School of Social Science, Michie Building (9) Level 8, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia (Email: a.fairbairn@uq.edu.au)
Jessica Pearson
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK (Email: dbaird@liverpool.ac.uk; jessica.pearson@liverpool.ac.uk)
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*Author for correspondence
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Excavations in the rockshelter at Pınarbaşı, 24.5km south-east of Çatalhöyük, have brought to light a sequence of structures and a rich assemblage of animal bones, with some of the bones embedded in plaster objects. The authors argue for a strong link with Çatalhöyük, and propose a hunter-herder site operated by a close-knit group from that settlement, supplying meat to it, but practising their own up-country rituals — so providing a glimpse of the ‘lived landscape’.

Keywords

AnatoliaNeolithicPre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB)plastered skullsanimal bone depositsrituallandscape
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Antiquity , Volume 85 , Issue 328 , June 2011 , pp. 380 - 394
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2011

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