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Small aceramic Neolithic settlement in the Konya plain of southern Turkey, dated to the later 7th millennium BC. Two occupation levels were recognized, the earlier with traces of hut floors, the latter with building of mudbrick and plastered floors. Thousands of animal bones have been found - sheep, goat, cattle, pig and some harvesting of wild cereals may have occurred.

A small settlement site in the Konya plain of southern Turkey, dated to the later 7th millennium be. Two occupation levels were recognized, the earlier with traces of hut floors, the later with building of mudbrick and plastered floors. There has been some dispute about the nature of the subsistence economy practised here. There is no information about the plant side of the diet, but some 25,000 animal bones were collected. Sheep and goat were the most frequent, but cattle, boar, red deer, fox and hedgehog also occur. The excavators argued that all the animals were wild and that there was no evidence of even incipient domestication. Other authorities, however, have pointed out that the sheep/goat bones, which constitute 70 per cent of the meat supply in the lower level, 50 per cent in the upper, indicate a high proportion of animals under the age of three. This would be consistent with incipient domestication, before any morphological changes in the skeleton had come about.