Abstract:

In the rescue works carried out by the Alanya Museum in 2017 in the Kadıini Cave in the Alanya district of Antalya province, the human skeleton remains dating to the Late Chalcolithic / Early Bronze Age were unarthed. The minimum number of individuals among these skeletal remains was 90. A total of 90 individuals were examined in order to analyze the demographic characteristics of the human skeletons. In the Women’s community, the mortality rate of infants and children is 37.78%. According to the age groups at the life table, the highest mortality rate in the community (dx: 35,56%) is the 10-19 age group. In the 0-9 age group, mortality rate is a relatively low (22.22%) but life expectancy rate is the highest (e0x: 19,56 years). The longevity for adults (15+ age; 25.9 years) is low when evaluated among some Anatolian Chalcolithic and Bronze Age populations. The life expectancy at age 40 (e0x) in the community is as low as 5 years and no individual living above 50 years old has been found. The longevity for women (24,5 years) is shorter than it is for men (26,8 years).The life expectancy among surviving individuals who are over 45 years of age in the community ended in women but continued in male (Ix: 11,54%; e0x: 5years). The demographic findings show that Women was probably a community with a young and growing population, also that the women were probably more affected by living conditions as seen in some prehistoric societies of Anatolia.

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Abstract:

In the rescue works carried out by the Alanya Museum in 2017 in the Kadıini Cave in the Alanya district of Antalya province, the human skeleton remains dating to the Late Chalcolithic / Early Bronze Age were unearthed. The minimum number of individuals among these skeletal remains was 90. A total of 90 individuals were examined in order to analyze the demographic characteristics of the human skeletons. In the Kadıini community, the mortality rate of infants and children is 37,78%. According to the age groups at the life table, the highest mortality rate in the community (dx: 35,56%) is the 10-19 age group. In the 0-9 age group, mortality rate is a relatively low (22,22%) but life expectancy rate is the highest (e0x: 19,56 years). The longevity for adults (15+ age; 25,9 years) is low when evaluated among some Anatolian Chalcolithic and Bronze Age populations. The life expectancy at age 40 (e0x) in the community is as low as 5 years and no individual living above 50 years old has been found. The longevity for women (24,5 years) is shorter than it is for men (26,8 years).The life expectancy among surviving individuals who are over 45 years of age in the community ended in women but continued in male (Ix: 11,54%; e0x: 5years). The demographic findings exhibit that Kadıini was probably a community with a young and growing population, also that the women were probably more affected by living conditions as seen in some prehistoric societies of Anatolia.