Authors
Sarah W Kansa, Stuart Campbell
Publication date
2004
Source
Behaviour Behind Bones. The zooarchaeology of ritual, religion, status and identity. Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology, Durham, August 2002
Pages
2-13
Publisher
oxbow books, oxford
Description
A unique feature of the settlement at Domuztepe is an extensive and complex funerary deposit, focused around a pit in Operation I in which portions of at least 40 individuals were recovered. Animal bones were also found associated with the human bones in the pit. This paper presents results of a detailed, albeit preliminary, examination of the animal remains in this ritual deposit. The results of this study are critical to a better understanding of both the overall ritual activity itself and the social strategies that integrated an early large-scale society. The identified portion of the Domuztepe faunal assemblage consists of 8,000 fragments, about 2,000 of which come from this pit. The nature of the faunal remains from this pit are presented and then compared with those from the rest of the site. Differences in body part representation and in relative abundance of taxa between the two areas reflect both human choice and …
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