Last house on the hill : BACH area reports from Çatalhöyük, Turkey / edited by Ruth Tringham and Mirjana Stevanovic.

Includes bibliographical references.

Chapter 1. Introduction to the BACH Project / Ruth Tringham and Mirjana Stevanovic -- Part 1. Strategies of Research, Analysis, and Interpretation -- Chapter 2. Research Methodology / Ruth Tringham and Mirjana Stevanovic -- Chapter 3. Creating and Archiving the Media Database and Documentation of the Excavation / Ruth Tringham and Michael Ashley, with Jason Quinlan -- Part 2. Retrieving and Understanding the Sequence of Depositional Events of the Buildings -- Chapter 4. Summary of Results of the Excavation in the BACH Area / Mirjana Stevanovic -- Chapter 5. Detailed Report of the Excavation of Building 3 and Spaces 87, 88 and 89 (1997-2003) / Mirjana Stevanovic -- Chapter 6. Building and Caring for the House at Çatalhöyük / Mirjana Stevanovic -- Chapter 7. Household Life Histories and Boundaries : Microstratigraphy and Micromorphology of Architectural Surfaces in Building 3 (BACH) / Wendy Matthews -- Part 3. Human-Environment Relations in the BACH Area -- Chapter 8. Mammals from the BACH Area / Nerissa Russell -- Chapter 9. Bird Remains from the BACH Area / Nerissa Russell and Kevin J. McGowan -- Chapter 10. The Microfauna of the BACH Area / Emma Jenkins -- Chapter 11. The Phytoliths of the BACH Area / Emma Jenkins -- Chapter 12. The Life of Building 3 through Plant Use : The Macrobotanical Evidence of Neolithic Dwelling from the BACH Excavations, 1997-2003 / Rachel M. Cane, Rob Q. Cuthrell, Matthew P. Sayre, K. Elizabeth Soluri and Christine A. Hastorf -- Chapter 13. Death and Its Relationship to Life : Neolithic Burials from Building 3 and Space 87 / Lori D. Hager and Başak Boz -- Chapter 14. Post-Neolitic Use of Building 3 (Space 86), Space 88, and Space 89 / Daniela Cottica, Lori D. Hager and Başak Boz -- Part 4. Changing Materialities in the BACH Area -- Chapter 15. Worked Bone from the BACH Area / Nerissa Russell -- Chapter 16. Neolithic Pottery from the BACH Excavation / Jonathan Last -- Chapter 17. Figurines of the BACH Area / Carolyn Nakamura -- Chapter 18. Analysis of Clay Ball Materials from the BACH Area / Sonya Atalay -- Chapter 19. The Flaked Stone Assemblage from the BACH Area / Tristan Carter and Heidi Mariendahl Underbjerg -- Chapter 20. Ground Stone Tools and Technologies Associated with Buildings in the BACH Area / Katherine I. Wright and Adnan Baysal -- Chapter 21. Beads and the Body : Ornament Technologies of the BACH Area Buildings / Katherine I. Wright -- Part 5. Taking the Analyses and Interpretations one step further : Alternative (Nontraditional) Directions of BACH Research -- Chapter 22. Building the Replica Neolithic House at Çatalhöyük / Mirjana Stevanovic -- Chapter 23. Çatalhöyük Murals : A Snapshot of Conservation and Experimental Research / Ina St. George -- Chapter 24. An Archaeology of Vision : Seeing Present and Past in Çatalhöyük / Michael Ashley -- Chapter 25. The Public Face of Archaeology at Çatalhöyük / Ruth Tringham -- Chapter 26. Sensing the Place of Çatalhöyük : The Rhythms of Daily Life / Ruth Tringham -- Afterword : Creating the Digital Mirror of Last House on the Hill / Ruth Tringham and Michael Ashley.

Occupied from around 7500 BC to 5700 BC, the large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Anatolia is composed entirely of domestic buildings; no public buildings have been identified. First excavated in the early 1960s, the site was left untouched until 1993. During the summers of 1997-2003 a team from the University of California at Berkeley (the BACH team) excavated an area at the northern end of the East Mound of Çatalhöyük. The houses there date predominantly to the late Aceramic and early Ceramic Neolithic, around 7000 BC. Last House on the Hill is the final report of the BACH excavations. This volume comprises both interpretive chapters and empirical data from the excavations and their materials. The research of the BACH team focuses on the lives and life histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in documenting and sharing the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities. Last House on the Hill is mirrored by an online media- and data-rich digital version (www.codifi.info/projects/last-house-onthe-hill) that interlinks all the original data, media, analyses, and interpretation of the BACH project with the final synthetic contents presented in this monograph.

"This volume is the final report on the excavations of Building 3, and Spaces 87, 88, and 89 at Çatalhöyük, Turkey that were carried out by a team from the University of California at Berkeley (BACH team) during the summers of 1997-2003. The BACH Area lies at the northern end of the East Mound of Çatalhöyük, whose archaeological remains date predominantly to the late Aceramic and early Ceramic Neolithic of Central Anatolia, ca. 7000 BC. As with previous reports on the Çatalhöyük Research Project, the BACH volume includes chapters of an interpretive nature in addition to reporting the empirical data from the excavations. The research of the BACH team in this volume focuses on the lives and life-histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in documenting and sharing the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities.