Protecting Catalhoyuk : memoir of an archaeological site guard / Sadrettin Dural ; with contributions by Ian Hodder ; translated by Duygu Camurcuoglu Cleere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dural, Sadrettin, 1953- author.

Contributor:

Hodder, Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dural, Sadrettin, 1953-.

Dural, Sadrettin.

Private security services--Turkey--Employees--Biography.

Private security services.

Çatal Mound (Turkey).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

They are essential to every major archaeological excavation but rarely acknowledged by the visiting researchers once the artifacts have been shipped. As part of the innovative, multivocal output from the famous Turkish Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, we hear from one of the site guards, Sadrettin Dural, who tells the story of the excavation from the point of view of the "Other." He offers tales of the strange habits of archaeologists, describes the local in-fighting that scholars never see, and explains how scientists can be protected from the Yatirs, spirits of the dead who guard the mound

Contents:

Beginning my new job at Çatalhöyük

Excavations begin : the team settles in

My routine as a guard

Loneliness and friendship amongst the ancient mounds of the Konya plain

I build the Çatalhöyük cafe

Dealing with more visitors and foreigners

Some less happy memories

The past and the present

Dealing with each other

Doing the right thing

More about Çatalhöyük

Some erotic moments

Financial dealings

More visitors to Çatalhöyük and some difficult moments

They stroke the soil with love

Things start to go wrong

The situation worsens

Reaching the end.

Notes:

First published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-160).

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-42180-1

1-315-42181-X

1-59874-651-0

9781315421810

OCLC:

748242146