Antik DNA Analizleri Açısından Güneydoğu Anadolu’da PPNB Dönemindeu Domuzun Evcilleştirilmesi: Boncuklu Tarla Örneği

WORLD NEOLITHIC CONGRESS 2024, Şanlıurfa, Türkiye, 4 - 08 Kasım 2024, ss.782, (Özet Bildiri)

: Studying animal bones helps us understand how past societies lived. Morphometric

and molecular analyses of the remains of domestic animals also provide important

information about the history of human-animal relationship, the domestication process of

animals, their place in the economy and their areas of use. It is known that the domestication

region of sheep, goat, cattle and pig, which are the most widely used livestock species in the

world today, is today's Anatolia. Since the pig has undergone a different domestication

process compared to sheep, goat and cattle, it is necessary to support the ancient pig remains

found in Anatolia with DNA-based studies in terms of both anthropology and

zooanthropology.It examines the history of pig domestication in Southeastern Anatolia. In this

study, DNA was isolated from bone samples of 17 pigs belonging to the 2012 Boncuklu Tarla

Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Period (10000-7000 BC) and sufficient quantity and quality of DNA was

obtained. An 80 bp region in the D-loop of the mtDNA was then amplified by PCR. PCR

products were obtained from five samples, and sequence analysis provided a usable sequence

from only one sample. When analysed alongside other sequences in the database from the

same region, the sample clustered with sequences from the early domestication period. This

project is supported by Hatay Mustafa Kemal University Scientific Research Projects

Coordination Office with the code 19.M.037. Investigation of the domestication process of pig

in Southeast Anatolia Region by aDNA-based methods: The case of Boncuklu Tarla.