Paleolithic Human Responses to Changing Aridity at ucagizli I cave, southern-coastal Turkey: Application of a Novel Carbon Isotope-Based Method

Açıkkol, Ayşen

Paleolithic Human Responses to Changing Aridity at ucagizli I cave, southern-coastal Turkey: Application of a Novel Carbon Isotope-Based Method

dc.authorid	0000-0003-1086-9749	tr
dc.contributor.author	Açıkkol, Ayşen
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-04T10:53:36Z
dc.date.available	2023-04-04T10:53:36Z
dc.date.issued	2022	tr
dc.department	Edebiyat Fakültesi	tr
dc.description.abstract	This paper investigates relationships between intervals of local environmental aridity and site occupation intensity at the Upper Paleolithic cave site of Üçağızlı I (Hatay coast, south-central Turkey) by combining a stable carbon isotope-based paleoenvironmental record with several classes of archaeological evidence. A novel method for synthesizing stable isotope data from multiple ungulate species is used to create an integrated archaeofauna-based paleoenvironmental record. This method increases the temporal resolution of the investigation in the absence of precise chronological control for some sedimentary layers and reveals patterns of habitat segregation among coeval prey taxa in each layer. The method also demonstrates significant variation in the δ13Cdiet of ungulates occupying contemporaneous landscapes, reflecting the existence of multiple micro-habitats within the foraging ranges of the Paleolithic occupants. Overall, the degree of environmental aridity does not correlate with measurable changes in land use or site occupation intensity based on archaeological proxies in the Üçağızlı I sequence. One exception is the Ahmarian occupation in layer B1-3 that records the wettest environmental conditions in conjunction with a marked increase in site occupation intensity, increased dietary breadth, and evidence for meat storage practices. These patterns likely signal a reorganization of forager land-use strategies in response to a short-lived interval of especially productive environmental conditions, possibly in conjunction with reduced mobility of local foragers	tr
dc.identifier.doi	10.1007/s10816-022-09553-x	en_US
dc.identifier.endpage	1228	tr
dc.identifier.issue	4	tr
dc.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-85124252742	en_US
dc.identifier.scopusquality	N/A
dc.identifier.startpage	1190	tr
dc.identifier.uri	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10816-022-09553-x
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12418/13293
dc.identifier.volume	29	tr
dc.identifier.wos	WOS:000751733800001	en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality	Q1
dc.indekslendigikaynak	Web of Science	en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynak	Scopus	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY	en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory	Uluslararası Hakemli Dergide Makale - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı	tr
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	tr
dc.subject	Stable isotopes, Paleoenvironment, Turkey, Paleolithic	tr
dc.title	Paleolithic Human Responses to Changing Aridity at ucagizli I cave, southern-coastal Turkey: Application of a Novel Carbon Isotope-Based Method	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US