Communities at work : the making of Çatalhöyük / edited by Ian Hodder and Christina Tsoraki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hodder, Ian, editor.

Tsoraki, Christina, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Monograph (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara) ; no. 55.

Çatalhöyük Project (Series) ; v. 15.

British Institute at Ankara monograph ; 55

Çatalhöyük research project series ; volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Turkey--Çatal Mound.

Neolithic period--Turkey.

Antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Neolithic period.

Çatal Mound (Turkey).

Turkey--Antiquities.

Turkey.

Turkey--Çatal Mound.

Physical Description:

xix, 327 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : British Institute at Ankara, [2021]

Summary:

The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük has been world famous since the 1960s when excavations conducted by Mellaart revealed the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as spectacular wall paintings and reliefs in the houses. This volume discusses general themes that have emerged in the analysis and interpretation of the results of excavations undertaken at Çatalhöyük between 2009 and 2017, although many authors also discuss data generated through the whole 25-year period of excavation by the Çatalhöyük Research Project since 1993. This volume scrutinizes Çatalhöyük as the by-product of the activities of a community residing in central Turkey 9,000 years ago, but also as the outcome of the interactions of a community of researchers with wide-ranging theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. The volume commences with an overview of community engagement practices and of the ways different audiences have interacted with the site through the life of the project. It then considers the differences in approach of the Mellaart and recent excavations and reflects on different methodological perspectives that have been used at the site. It synthesizes the diverse array of environmental resources that would have been used in different times of the year. The ways in which the community at Çatalhöyük was held together, but also how community dynamics may have changed over time, are considered through the analysis of open areas, house architecture and contents, and the sequence of activities in houses. Modeling changes in practices over time shows that the effects of new introductions such as cooking pottery played out over many phases of occupation. The evidence for violence at the site is re-evaluated integrating the analysis of human remains and different forms of artifacts such as projectile points, clay balls and maceheads. The diversity of themes discussed in this volume captures the multifaceted nature of Çatalhöyük.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Communities at work: 25 years of research at Catalhoyiik / Christina Tsoraki

2. A quarter-century of community engagement at Catalhoyiik / Lucy Bennison-Chapman

3. Narratives around audiences: creating relationships between Catalhoyiik and different publics / Duygu Tarkan

4. The City 2016-2018: a video and audio installation / Rossella Biscotti

5. Integrating records of Mellaart and Hodder research projects at Catalhoyuk: the GDN Area / Jesse Wolfhagen

6. Integrating conservation in practice at Catalhoyuk, an inter-team perspective / Jesse Wolfhagen

7. Digital Catalhoyuk: a cyber-archaeological approach / Nicola Lercari

8. The seasonality of using wetland and riparian environments at Catalhoyuk / John Wainwright

9. The complexity of open spaces at Catalhoyiik / Jesse Wolfhagen

10. An integrated approach to the study of socio-material networks at Catalhoyiik / Rena Veropoulidou

11. Continuity and change in architectural traditions at Late Neolithic Catalhoyuk / Burcu Tung

12. Entwining time and materialising communities: house biographies and temporalities of space-making Kevin Kay

13. Diachronic entanglements at Catalhoyuk: complementing network visualisations of key human and thing dependencies with a data-scaffolding and modelling approach / Ian Hodder

14. Disentangling Neolithic cuisine: archaeological evidence for 9,000-year-old food preparation practices and cooking techniques at Catalhoyuk East / Rena Veropoulidou

15. Social tolerance and violence at Neolithic Catalhoyuk / Marco Milella

16. The colour of things. Pigments and colours in Neolithic Catalhoyiik / Rena Veropoulidou.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781912090488

1912090481

OCLC:

1248685276

Publisher Number:

99991062110