The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses. Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people who inhabited the site. Çatalhöyük Excavations presents the results of the excavations that took place at the site from 2000 to 2008 when the main aim was to understand the social geography of the settlement, its layout and social organization. Excavation, recording and sampling methodologies are discussed as well as dating, ‘levels’, and the grouping of buildings into social sectors. The excavations in three areas of the East Mound at Çatalhöyük are described: the South Area, the 4040 Area in the northern part of the site, and the IST Area excavated by a team from Istanbul University. The description of excavated units, features and buildings incorporates results from the analyses of animal bone, chipped stone, groundstone, shell, ceramics, phytoliths, micromorphology. The integration of such data within their context allows detailed accounts of the lives of the inhabitants of Çatalhöyük, their relationships and activities. The integration of different types of data in the excavation account mimics the process of collaborative interpretation that took place during the excavation and post-excavation process.
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The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and reliefs uncovered inside the houses.
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Introduction and history of research – Ian HodderSummary of methods and results – Ian Hodder and Shahina FaridAn interim report on the dating of Çatalhöyük – Alex BaylissThe South Area excavationsIntroduction – Ian Hodder and Shahina FaridThe stratigraphic sequence in the South Area – Shahina FaridThe sequence of Buildings 75, 65, 56, 44 and 10 and associated Spaces 144, 314, 329, 333 and 427 – Roddy Regan and James TaylorThe sequence of Buildings 53 and 42 and associated Spaces 129, 130, 229-305, 319, 339 – Freya SadaranganiBuilding 43 – Shahina FaridBuilding 50 – Shahina FaridBuilding 68 – Roddy Regan and James TaylorBuilding 69 – Roddy Regan and James TaylorThe Foundation Trenches for the South shelter – Shahina FaridThe 4040 Area excavationsIntroduction – Ian Hodder and Shahina FaridThe excavations zones and stratigraphy of the 4040 Area – Shahina FaridBuilding 45 – Lisa YeomansBuildings 46 and 48 – Daniel EddidsfordBuildings 47 and 67 – Michael HouseBuilding 49 – Daniel EddisfordBuildings 51 and 52 – Shahina FaridBuilding 54 – Freya SadaranganiBuilding 55 – Lisa YeomansBuilding 57 – Freya SadaranganiBuilding 58 – Freya SadaranganiThe sequence of Buildings 59 and 60 – Michael HouseBuilding 64 – Lisa YeomansBuilding 66 – Lisa YeomansBuilding 77 – Michael HouseBuilding 82 – Lisa Yeomans and Shahina FaridBuilding 88, Space 309 – Lisa YeomansExternal area - Spaces 60, 133, 279 and Buildings 70 and 71 – Lisa Yeomans and Shahina FaridExternal area – Space 226 – Freya SadaranganiSpace 1003 – eroded burials – Lisa YeomansThe Foundation Trenches for the 4040 shelter – Shahina FaridThe post-Neolithic occupation of the 4040 Area Building 41 – Lisa YeomansBurials – Mark JacksonThe IST Area excavations – Mihriban Özbaşaran and Güneş DuruCD – Matrices and Videos
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ISBN
9781898249290
Publisert
2013-12-31
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British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
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UP, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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300

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Biographical note

Ian Hodder, Fellow of the British Academy since 1996, is the Dunlevie Family Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University.