1st Edition

Assembling Çatalhöyük RPD

Edited By Ian Hodder, Arkadiusz Marciniak Copyright 2015
    214 Pages
    by Routledge

    214 Pages
    by Routledge

    Assembling Çatalhöyük, like archaeological remains, can be read in a number of ways. At one level the volume reports on the exciting new discoveries and advances that are being made in the understanding of the 9000 year-old Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük. The site has long been central to debates about early village societies and the formation of ‘mega-sites’ in the Middle East. The current long-term project has made many advances in our understanding of the site that impact our wider understanding of the Neolithic and its spread into Europe from the Middle East. These advances concern use of the environment, climate change, subsistence practices, social and economic organization, the role of religion, ritual and symbolism. At another level, the volume reports on methodological advances that have been made by team members, including the development of reflexive methods, paperless recording on site, the integrated use of 3D visualization, and interactive archives. The long-term nature of the project allows these various innovations to be evaluated and critiqued. In particular, the volume includes analyses of the social networks that underpin the assembling of data, and documents the complex ways in which arguments are built within quickly transforming alliances and allegiances within the team. In particular, the volume explores how close inter-disciplinarity, and the assembling of different forms of data from different sub-disciplines, allow the weaving together of information into robust, distributed arguments.

    Introduction

    Assembling Science at Çatalhöyük

    Representing the Archaeological Process at Çatalhöyük in a Living Archive

    Networking the Teams and Texts of Archaeological Research at Çatalhöyük

    Interpretation Process at Çatalhöyük using 3D

    Reading the Bones, Reading the Stones

    Reconciling the Body

    Roles for the Sexes

    Laying the Foundations

    The Architecture of Neolothic Çatalhöyük as a Process

    ‘Up in Flames’

    The Nature of Household in the Upper Levels at Çatalhöyük

    The People and Their Landscape(s)

    The End of the Neolithic Statement

    Biography

    Ian Hodder, Arkadiusz Marciniak