Gürcütepe Object Profile
Gürcütepe Animal and Food Evidence
Gürcütepe's animal and food evidence helps anchor the site in ordinary settlement life, hearths, craft, and subsistence.
Quick Facts
- Site
- Gürcütepe
- Structure
- Gürcütepe III Domestic And Craft Area
- Type
- animal and food evidence
What We Know
Current notes describe sheep/goat as the primary faunal category, followed by pig and cattle, with smaller wild-animal components including gazelle, fox, deer, and fallow deer.
Main Details
- Sheep/goat is listed as the primary faunal category in current notes.
- Pig and cattle are major categories.
- Wild animals are present but appear smaller in the current summary.
- Wild taxa include Persian gazelle, red fox, red deer, or Iranian fallow deer in current notes.
- Faunal counts, phase tables, and taphonomy still need confirmation.
Parent Context
- Gürcütepe
- Gürcütepe III Domestic And Craft Area
- Gürcütepe Animal and Food Evidence
- Gürcütepe Animal and Food Evidence belongs to Gürcütepe III Domestic And Craft Area at Gürcütepe.
Public Reading Path
- Gürcütepe's animal and food evidence helps anchor the site in ordinary settlement life, hearths, craft, and subsistence.
- Current notes describe sheep/goat as the primary faunal category, followed by pig and cattle, with smaller wild-animal components including gazelle, fox, deer, and fallow deer.
- Gürcütepe Animal and Food Evidence should be read as public-safe evidence first, with exact context, catalogue, phase, and image-rights questions kept visible.
- Gürcütepe Animal and Food Evidence should be read as reported evidence first, then compared with the parent structure page.
Physical Evidence
- Sheep/goat is listed as the primary faunal category in current notes.
- Pig and cattle are major categories.
- Wild animals are present but appear smaller in the current summary.
- Wild taxa include Persian gazelle, red fox, red deer, or Iranian fallow deer in current notes.
- Faunal counts, phase tables, and taphonomy still need confirmation.
Motifs And Feature Groups
- animal and food evidence
What To Be Careful About
- Use reported wording where exact locus, phase, function, or 2025 metadata remain open.
- Do not assign ritual, identity, contents, liquid type, exchange, or status meanings without source support.
- Do not promote research leads as confirmed excavated objects without source, context, and catalogue support.
Source Trail
- Evidence note
- Official Taş Tepeler Gürcütepe page
- Stone Mounds 2025 Gürcütepe note
Open Questions
- What is the exact object number, find context, date, and current collection record?
- Which image can be published once rights and credit wording are clear?
- Does this evidence come from surface material, older publication, museum attribution, or excavated context?
Evidence Review
- Evidence notes and image records support deeper review.
- Detailed evidence notes remain available for deeper review.
Sources
- Evidence note
- Official Taş Tepeler Gürcütepe page
- Stone Mounds 2025 Gürcütepe note