Volume 5 deals with aspects of the material culture excavated in the 1995-99 period. In particular it discusses the changing materiality of life at the site over its 1100 years of occupation. It includes a discussion of ceramics and other fired clay material, chipped stone, groundstone, worked bone and basketry.

Changing Entanglements and Temporalities (Ian Hodder); Statistical Integration of Contextual Data (Sarah Cross May); Heavy-residue Analysis (Craig Cessford et al); Absolute Dating at Çatalhöyük (Craig Cessford et al); Pottery from the East Mound (Jonathan Last); Domesticating Clay: the Role of Clay Balls, Mini Balls and Geometric Objects in Daily Life at Çatalhöyük (Sonya Atalay); Organic-residue Analysis of Pottery Vessels and Clay Balls (Mark Copley et al); Some Remarks on Çatalhöyük Stamp Seals (Ali Umut Turkcan); The Figurines (Naomi Hamilton); A Preliminary Investigation of Mudbrick at Çatalhöyük (Burcu Tung); The Chipped Stone (Tristan Carter et al); From Chemistry to Consumption: Towards a History of Obsidian Use at Çatalhöyük through a Programme of Inter-Laboratory Trace-elemental Characterisation (Tristan Carter et al); Cooking, Crafts and Curation: Ground-stone Artefacts from Çatalhöyük (Adnan Baysal and Katherine I Wright); The Beads (Naomi Hamilton); Çatalhöyük Basketry (Willeke Wendrich); Çatalhöyük Worked Bone (Nerissa Russell); Ground-stone Raw Material from Çatalhöyük (Asuman G Turkmenoglu et al); Bead Material Identification (Brian Jackson).