Humans and Landscapes of Çatalhöyük : Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons / edited by Ian Hodder.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-508)

Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction: dwelling at Çatalhöyük / Ian Hodder -- Part 2. Dwelling at Çatalhöyük -- Chapter 2. Sampling and mapping Çatalhöyük / Camilla Mazzucato -- Chapter 3. Ecology, diet and discard practices : new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of middens through integrating micromorphological, phytolith and geochemical analyses / Lisa-Marie Shillito, Wendy Matthews and Matthew Almond -- Chapter 4. Integrated Geochemical and Microscopic Analysis of Human Coprolites, Animal Dung and Organic Remains in Burials / Lisa-Marie Shillito, Ian D. Bull, Wendy Matthews, Matthew J. Almond -- Part 3.Dwelling in the Çatalhöyük landscape -- Chapter 5. Micro-freshwater Gastropods at Çatalhöyük as Environmental Indicators / Burçin A. Gümüş and Daniela E. Bar, Yosef Mayer -- Chapter 6. Unio shells from Çatalhöyük : Preliminary Palaeoclimatic Data from Isotopic Analyses / Daniele E. Bar, Yosef Mayer, Melanie J. Leng, David C. Aldridge, Carol Arrowsmith, Burçin A. Gümüş and Hilary J. Sloane -- Chapter 7. The Archaeobotany of Mid-later Occupation Levels at Neolithic Çatalhöyük / Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles, Alex Livarda, Müge Ergun, Dragana Filipovic and Glynis Jones -- Chapter 8. Woodland Vegetation, Firewood Management and Woodcrafts at Neolithic Çatalhöyük / Eleni Asouti -- Chapter 9. Plant Exploitation from Household and Landscape Perspectives : the Phytolith Evidence / Philippa Ryan -- Chapter 10. Starch Granules and Complex Carbohydrates at Çatalhöyük / Karen Hardy, Renee van de Locht, Julie Wilson and Osman Tugay -- Chapter 11. More on the Çatalhöyük Mammal Remains / Nerissa Russell, Katheryn C. Twiss, David C. Orton and G. Arzu Demirergi -- Chapter 12. The Çatalhöyük Microfauna / Emma Jenkins and Lisa Yeomans -- Chapter 13. Human and Animal Diets as Evidenced by Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis / Jessica Pearson -- Chapter 14. Oxygen Stable Isotope and Dental Microwear Evidence of Herding Practices at Çatalhöyük / Elizabeth Henton -- Chapter 15. The Exploitation of Fish at Çatalhöyük / Wim Van Neer, Ronald Gravendeel, Wim Wouters and Nerissa Russell -- Chapter 16. Mollusc Exploitation at Çatalhöyük / 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 / 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 B. Garofalo, Lori D. Hager and Scott D. Haddow -- Chapter 18. The Human Remains II: Interpreting Lifestyle and Activity in Neolithic Çatalhöyük / Clark Spencer Larsen, Simon W. Hillson, Christopher B. Ruff, Joshua W. Sadvari and Evan M. Garofalo -- Chapter 19. Intramural Burial Practices at Çatalhöyük / Başak Boz and Lori D. Hager -- Chapter 20. The Çatalhöyük Burial Assemlage / Carolyn Nakamura and Lynn Meskell.

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 to shed more light on the people who inhabited the site. The present volume 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 dwelled in. A first section explores how houses, open areas and middens in the settlement were enmeshed in the daily lives of the inhabitants, integrating a wide range of different types of data at different scales. A second section examines subsistence practices of the site’s inhabitants and builds up a picture of how the overall landscape was exploited and lived within. A third section examines the evidence from the skeletons of those buried within the houses at Çatalhöyük in order to examine health, diet, lifestyle and activity within the settlement and across the landscape. This final section also reports on the burial practices and associations in order to build hypotheses about the social organization of those inhabiting the settlement. 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. Through time, however, substantial changes occur in the ways in which humans and landscapes interact.