Near Eastern archaeology, especially Turkey; zooarchaeology; origins and development of agriculture and pastoralism; provisioning and social complexity; animal symbolism Projects: Horse domestication in the Ancient Near East; Animals and Inequality; Origins of animal domestication in SW Asia.
Relevant Courses Taught:
• ANTH 233 Prehistory of SW Asia and Egypt • ANTH 65 Humans and Animals
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Peters, J., B.S. Arbuckle, and N. Pöllath (2015) Subsistence and beyond: Animals in Neolithic Anatolia. In Özdoğan, M., N. Başgelen, and P. Kuniholm (eds), Neolithic in Turkey 10.500-5200 BC. Volume 6: Environment, settlement, flora, fauna, dating, symbols and belief with views from North, South, East and West. Pp. 135-203. Istanbul: Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları. 5/2015
• 2016 Arbuckle, B.S. (2015) Large game depression and the process of animal domestication in the Near East. In M.S. Kerner, R. Dann, and P. Bangsgaard (eds.) Climate Change in Ancient Societies. Pgs 215-243. University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
• 2016 Price, M.D. and B.S. Arbuckle (2015) Early pig management in the Zagros Flanks: Reanalysis of the fauna from Neolithic Jarmo, northern Iraq. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 25(4): 441-453. doi:10.1002/oa.2312.
• 2016 Sharon R. Steadman, Gregory McMahon, Jennifer C. Ross, Marica Cassis, T. Emre Şerifoğlu, Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Sarah E. Adcock, Songül Alpaslan Roodenberg, Madelynn von Baeyer, and Anthony J. Lauricella (2015) The 2013 and 2014 Seasons of Excavation at Çadır Höyük on the Anatolian North Central Plateau. Anatolica 41:87-124.
• 2016 Arbuckle, B.S. (2015) Symbolic Uses of Animals in Ancient Anatolia. Actual Archaeology Magazine. Anatolia 44: 37-45.
• 2016 Arbuckle B.S. (2015) Hayvan Sembolizmi. Aktuel Arkeoloji Dergisi Türkiye 44: 47-55.
• 2015 Arbuckle BS (2013) Köşk Höyük Faunal Data. Open Context: Open Context. Available:http://opencontext.org/tables/f8b79a9771ccf176508cd52845a590b2, http://dx.doi.org/10.6078/M7H12ZXT
• 2015 Arbuckle BS (2013) Erbaba Höyük and Suberde Zooarchaeology Data. Open Context: Open Context. Available: http://opencontext.org/tables/6979344c2aaed2d1454ef0bba7763127, http://dx.doi.org/10.6078/M7C8276W
• 2015 Arbuckle, B.S. and S. McCarty (2015) (eds) Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World. University Press of Colorado: Boulder.
• 2015 Arbuckle, B. S. and S. McCarty (2015) Animals and Inequality: An Introduction. In B.S. Arbuckle and S. McCarty (eds.) Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World, pp1-10. University Press of Colorado: Boulder.
• 2015 Arbuckle, B. S. (2015) Inequality and the origin of intensive wool production in Central Anatolia. In B.S. Arbuckle and S. McCarty (eds.) Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World, pp211-231. University Press of Colorado: Boulder.
• 2015 Peters, J., B.S. Arbuckle, and N. Pöllath (2015) Subsistence and beyond: Animals in Neolithic Anatolia. In Özdoğan, M., N. Başgelen, and P. Kuniholm (eds), Neolithic in Turkey 10.500-5200 BC. Volume 6: Environment, settlement, flora, fauna, dating, symbols and belief with views from North, South, East and West. Pp. 135-203. Istanbul: Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları.
• 2015 Arbuckle, B.S. (2014) The Rise of Cattle Cultures in Bronze Age Anatolia. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 2(4): 277-293.
• 2015 B.S. Arbuckle, S.W. Kansa, E. Kansa, D. Orton, C. Çakırlar, L. Gourichon, L. Atici, A. Galik, A. Marciniak, J. Mulville, H. Buitenhuis, D. Carruthers, B. De Cupere, A. Demirergi, S. Frame, D. Helmer, L. Martin, J. Peters, N. Pöllath, K. Pawłowska, N. Russell, K. Twiss, D. Würtenberger (2014) Data Sharing Reveals Complexity in the Westward Spread of Domestic Animals across Neolithic Turkey. PLoS ONE 9(6):e99845.
• 2015 Arbuckle BS, Orton D, Buitenhuis H, Marciniak A, Atici AL et al. (2014) EOL Computational Data Challenge: Zooarchaeology Metrics Dataset Version 2. Open Context. Available: http://opencontext.org/tables/def8fb9c9d7fdc1993db45b7350ca955,http://dx.doi.org/10.6078/M7BZ63Z6
• 2014 B.S. Arbuckle, S.W. Kansa, E. Kansa, D. Orton, C. Çakırlar, L. Gourichon, L. Atici, A. Galik, A. Marciniak, J. Mulville, H. Buitenhuis, D. Carruthers, B. De Cupere, A. Demirergi, S. Frame, D. Helmer, L. Martin, J. Peters, N. Pöllath, K. Pawłowska, N. Russell, K. Twiss, D. Würtenberger (2014) Data Sharing Reveals Complexity in the Westward Spread of Domestic Animals across Neolithic Turkey. PLoS ONE 9(6):e99845. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099845
• 2014 Arbuckle, B.S. (2014) Pace and process in the origins of animal husbandry in Neolithic Southwest Asia. Bioarchaeology of the Near East 8:53-81
• 2014 Kansa, E.C., S. W. Kansa and B.S. Arbuckle (2014) Publishing and pushing: Mixing models for communicating research data. International Journal of Digital Curation 9: 57-70.
• 2013 Arbuckle, B.S. (2013) The late adoption of cattle and pig husbandry in Neolithic Central Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(4):1805-1815.
• 2013 Claudio Ottoni, Linus Girdland Flink, Allowen Evin Christina Geörg, Bea De Cupere, Wim Van Neer, László Bartosiewicz, Anna Linderholm, Ross Barnett, Joris Peters, Ronny Decorte, Marc Waelkens, Nancy Vanderheyden, François-Xavier Ricaut, A. Rus Hoelzel, Marjan Mashkour, Azadeh Fatemeh Mohaseb Karimlu, Shiva Sheikhi Seno, Julie Daujatg,h, Fiona Brock, Ron Pinhasi, Hitomi Hongo, Miguel Perez-Enciso, Morten Rasmussen, Laurent Frantz, Hendrik-Jan Megens, Richard Crooijmans, Martien Groenen, Benjamin Arbuckle, Nobert Benecke, Una Strand Vidarsdottir, Joachim Burger, Thomas Cucchi, Keith Dobney, Greger Larson (2013) Pig domestication and human-mediated dispersal in western Eurasia revealed through ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics. Journal of Molecular and Evolutionary Biology 30(4):824-832.
• 2013 Steadman, Sharon R., Gregory McMahon, Jennifer Ross, Marica Cassis, Jeffrey D. Geyer, Benjamin S. Arbuckle, and Madelynn von Baeyer (2013) The 2009 and 2012 seasons of excavation at Çadır Höyük on the Anatolian North Central Plateau. Anatolica 39: 113-167.
• 2013 Price, M.D. and B.S. Arbuckle (2013) Early pig management in the Zagros Flanks: Reanalysis of the fauna from Neolithic Jarmo, northern Iraq. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. DOI: 10.1002/oa.2312.
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