Benjamin Arbuckle
Benjamin S. Arbuckle
Benjamin S. Arbuckleis professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a zooarchaeologist whose research focuses on human-animal interactions in ancient Anatolia (modern Turkey). He is coeditor of Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World.
Food Provisioning in Complex Societies
Zooarchaeological Perspectives
- edited by Levent Atici & Benjamin S. Arbuckle
Horses in Prehistoric Turkey
In 2008, I was sitting on a folding plastic chair in our makeshift archaeology lab situated on the grounds of a "sugar factory" in the provincial town of Niğde (pronounced NEE-deh), Turkey (about a four-hour drive south from Ankara, Turkey’s capital), when I made a discovery.




