Humans and Landscapes of Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons, Volume 8


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Series: Monumenta Archaeologica 30
ISBN: 978-1-898249-30-6
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Price: Hb $89.00
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Ian Hodder

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 toshed more light on the people who inhabited the site. 

Humans and Landscapes of ÇatalhöyükThis volume, one of four copublished with the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, reports on the results of excavations in 2000–2008 that have provided a wealth of new data on the ways in which the Çatalhöyük settlement and environment were occupied. 

Humans and Landscapes of Çatalhöyük

The first section explores how houses, open areas, and middens in the settlement were central to the daily lives of the inhabitants; the second section studies their subsistence practices; and the third examines the evidence from the skeletons of those buried inside the houses to understand the health, diet, lifestyle, associations, and burial practices of those who lived there. A complex picture emerges of a relatively decentralized society, large in size, but small-scale in terms of organization, dwelling within a mosaic patchwork of environments.

Humans and Landscapes of Çatalhöyük
Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction: Dwelling at Çatalhöyük by Ian Hodder

Part 2: Dwelling at Çatalhöyük

Chapter 2. Sampling and Mapping Çatalhöyük by Camilla Mazzucato
Chapter 3. Ecology, Diet and Discard Practices: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of
Middens through Integrating Micromorphological, Phytolith and Geochemical Analyses by Lisa-Marie Shillito, Wendy Matthews & Matthew J. Almond
Chapter 4. Integrated Geochemical and Microscopic Analysis of Human Coprolites, Animal Dung and
Organic Remains in Burials by Lisa-Marie Shillito, Ian D. Bull, Wendy Matthews, Matthew J. Almond & Richard P. Evershed

Part 3: Dwelling in the Çatalhöyük Landscape

Chapter 5. Micro-freshwater Gastropods at Çatalhöyük as Environmental Indicators by Burçin A. Gümüş & Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer
Chapter 6. Unio shells from Çatalhöyük: Preliminary Palaeoclimatic Data from Isotopic Analyses by Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Melanie J. Leng, David C. Aldridge, Carol Arrowsmith, Burçin A. Gümüş & Hilary J. Sloane
Chapter 7. The Archaeobotany of Mid-later Occupation Levels at Neolithic Çatalhöyük by Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles, Alex Livarda, Müge Ergun, Dragana Filipovic& Glynis Jones
Chapter 8. Woodland Vegetation, Firewood Management and Woodcrafts at Neolithic Çatalhöyük by Eleni Asouti
Chapter 9. Plant Exploitation from Household and Landscape Perspectives: the Phytolith Evidence by Philippa Ryan
Chapter 10. Starch Granules and Complex Carbohydrates at Çatalhöyük by Karen Hardy, Renee van de Locht, Julie Wilson & Osman Tugay
Chapter 11. More on the Çatalhöyük Mammal Remains by Nerissa Russell, Katheryn C. Twiss, David C. Orton
Chapter 12. The Çatalhöyük Microfauna by Emma Jenkins & Lisa Yeomans
Chapter 13. Human and Animal Diets as Evidenced by Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis by Jessica Pearson
Chapter 14. Oxygen Stable Isotope and Dental Microwear Evidence of Herding Practices at Çatalhöyük by Elizabeth Henton
Chapter 15. The Exploitation of Fish at Çatalhöyük by Wim Van Neer, Ronald Gravendeel, Wim Wouters & Nerissa Russell
Chapter 16. Mollusc Exploitation at Çatalhöyük by Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer

Part 4: Humans and their Lifestyles

Chapter 17. The Human Remains I: Interpreting Community Structure, Health and Diet in Neolithic Çatalhöyük by Simon W. Hillson, Clark Spencer Larsen, Başak Boz, Marin A. Pilloud,Joshua W. Sadvari, Sabrina C. Agarwal, Bonnie Glencross, Patrick Beauchesne,Jessica Pearson, Christopher B. Ruff, Evan M. Garofalo, Lori D. Hager & Scott D. Haddow
Chapter 18. The Human Remains II: Interpreting Lifestyle and Activity in Neolithic Çatalhöyük by Clark Spencer Larsen, Simon W. Hillson, Christopher B. Ruff, Joshua W. Sadvari,& Evan M. Garofalo
Chapter 19. Intramural Burial Practices at Çatalhöyük by Başak Boz & Lori D. Hager
Chapter 20. The Çatalhöyük Burial Assemblage by Carolyn Nakamura & Lynn Meskell