A Diachronic View on the Anatolian Landscape: Environment and Economy from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman Period in the Northern Tyanitis (Southern Cappadocia, Turkey)

In this contribution we present the results of a multidisciplinary research on the landscape and agricultural history of southern Cappadocia (Turkey), from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period. The study is based on paleoenvironmental (§ 2.1) and archaeological surveys (§ 2.2) conducted in the Bor plain, as well as archaeobotanical (§ 3.1) and zooarchaeological (§ 3.2) analyses from the site of Kınık Höyük. The available evidence indicates the development during the 1st millennium BCE of a rich agricultural landscape, dominated by the cultivation of water-demanding crops. The evidence from southern Cappadocia is discussed in the broader central Anatolian context, pointing to the presence of regional differences in agropastoral economies (§ 4).