The role of animal economies, and particularly the provisioning of feasts, in supporting the rise and maintenance of social complexity are topics of global interest in anthropology. This study investigates how people chose to provision feasts during the late Neolithic Halaf Period in Northern Mesopotamia (ca. 6000-5300 cal. BCE). Zooarcheological assemblages from the Halaf site of Domuztepe (ca. 6000-5450 cal. BCE), located in southeastern Turkey, offer an opportunity to investigate these phenomena. Radiogenic strontium isotope data derived from teeth from livestock (sheep, goats, cattle, and pigs) recovered from both domestic trash and the refuse from large-scale feasting events provide important proxy evidence for ancient peoples’ provisioning of feasts and their coordination in animal resource production. Results indicate that animals consumed at feasts were drawn from the same herded population that fed inhabitants at the site daily. This has important social implications for feast organizers, whose choices would affect the community beyond the individual feast event.

动物经济的作用，尤其是提供盛宴，在支持社会复杂性的兴起和维持方面的作用是全球人类学关注的话题。本研究调查了在新石器时代晚期的美索不达米亚北部（约公元前 6000-5300 年）的哈拉夫时期，人们如何选择提供盛宴。位于土耳其东南部的 Domuztepe（约公元前 6000-5450 年）哈拉夫遗址的动物考古组合为研究这些现象提供了机会。从生活垃圾和大型宴会活动的垃圾中回收的牲畜（绵羊、山羊、牛和猪）牙齿中的放射性锶同位素数据为古代人提供宴会及其在动物资源中的协调提供了重要的替代证据生产。结果表明，在宴会上食用的动物来自每天为该地点的居民提供食物的同一群畜群。这对宴会组织者具有重要的社会意义，他们的选择将影响到超出个人宴会活动的社区。