1st Edition
Protecting Çatalhöyük Memoir of an Archaeological Site Guard
By Sadrettin Dural
Copyright 2007
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Beginning my new job at Çatalhöyük; Chapter 2 Excavations begin'“ The team settles in; Chapter 3 My routine as a guard; Chapter 4 Loneliness and friendship among the ancient mounds of the Konya plain; Chapter 5 I build the Çatalhöyük cafe; Chapter 6 Dealing with more visitors and foreigners; Chapter 7 Some less happy memories; Chapter 8 The past and the present; Chapter 9 Dealing with each other; Chapter 10 Doing the right thing; Chapter 11 More about Çatalhöyük; Chapter 12 Some erotic moments; Chapter 13 Financial dealings; Chapter 14 More visitors to Çatalhöyük and some difficult moments; Chapter 15 They stroke the soil with love; Chapter 16 Things start to go wrong; Chapter 17 The situation worsens; Chapter 18 Reaching the end;
Biography
Sadrettin Dural
