Çatalhöyük Excavations : The 2000-2008 Seasons / edited by Ian Hodder.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 659-672)

Part 1. Introduction and Methodology -- Chapter 1 Questions, History of Work and Summary of Results / Ian Hodder & Shahina Farid -- Chapter 2. Excavation, Recording and Sampling Methodologies / Shahina Farid & Ian Hodder -- Part 2. Chronology and Phasing of the Neolithic Sequence -- Chapter 3. Time Will Tell : Practicing Bayesian Chronological Modeling on the East Mound / Alex Bayliss, Shahina Farid & Thomas Higham -- Chapter 4. Timelines : Phasing Neolithic Çatalhöyük / Shahina Farid -- Part 3. Neolithic Excavations in the South Area, East Mound, Çatalhöyük 2002–8 -- Chapter 5. The Sequence of Buildings 75, 65, 56, 69, 44 and 10 and External Spaces 119, 129, 130, 144, 299, 314, 319, 329, 333, 339, 367, 371 and 427 / Roddy Regan with contributions by James Taylor -- Chapter 6. The Sequence of Buildings 53 and 42 and External Spaces 259, 260 and 261 / Freya Sadarangani -- Chapter 7. Building 43 / Shahina Farid -- Chapter 8. Building 50, Spaces 112 and 231 / Shahina Farid -- Chapter 9. Building 68 / Roddy Regan & James Taylor -- Chapter 10. The South Shelter Foundation Trenches / Shahina Farid -- Part 4. Neolithic Excavations in the 4040 Area, East Mound, Çatalhöyük 2002–8 -- Chapter 11. Building 45 / Lisa Yeomans -- Chapter 12. The Sequence of Buildings 48 and 46 / Daniel Eddisford -- Chapter 13. The Sequence of Buildings 67 and 47 / Michael House -- Chapter 14. Building 49 / Daniel Eddisford -- Chapter 15. Buildings 52/51 / Shahina Farid -- Chapter 16. Building 54 / Freya Sadarangani -- Chapter 17. Building 55 / Lisa Yeomans -- Chapter 18. Building 57 / Freya Sadarangani -- Chapter 19. Building 58 / Freya Sadarangani -- Chapter 20. The Sequence of Buildings 59 and 60 / Michael House -- Chapter 21. Building 64 / Lisa Yeomans -- Chapter 22. Building 66 / Lisa Yeomans -- Chapter 23. Building 77 / Michael House -- Chapter 24. Building 82 / Shahina Farid -- Chapter 25. Building 88 / Lisa Yeomans -- Chapter 26. External Spaces 60, 133, 145, 240, 241, 242, 291, 426 and Building 13 / Lisa Yeomans -- Chapter 27. External Space 279 and Buildings 70 and 71 / Lisa Yeomans -- Chapter 28. External Space 226 / Freya Sadarangani -- Chapter 29. Eroded Neolithic Burials, Space 1003 / Lisa Yeomans -- Chapter 30. The North Shelter Foundation Trenches / Shahina Farid -- Part 5. Post-Neolithic Excavations in the North Area, East Mound, Çatalhöyük 2002–8 -- Chapter 31. Building 31 / Lisa Yeomans -- Chapter 32. Late Burials from the 4040 Area of the East Mound / Sophie Moore & Mark Jackson -- Part 6. Other Neolithic Excavations -- Chapter 33. Istanbul (IST) Area of the East Mound / Mihriban Özbaşaran & Güneş Duru with contributions by Amy Bogaard, Başak Boz, Michael Charles Müge Ergun, Hilal Gültekin, Nurcan Kayacan, Nerissa Russell, Duygu Tarkan, Katheryn C. Twiss & Nurcan Yalman.

Çatalhöyük Excavations presents the results of the excavations that took place at the site from 2000 to 2008 when the main aim was to understand the social geography of the settlement, its layout, and social organization. Excavation, recording, and sampling methodologies are discussed as well as dating, “levels,” and the grouping of buildings into social sectors. The description of excavated units, features, and buildings incorporates results from the analyses of animal bone, chipped stone, ground stone, shell, ceramics, phytoliths, and micromorphology. The integration of such data within their context allows detailed accounts of the lives of the inhabitants of Çatalhöyük, their relationships, and activities.

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. Çatalhöyük Excavations presents the results of the excavations that took place at the site from 2000 to 2008 when the main aim was to understand the social geography of the settlement, its layout and social organization. Excavation, recording and sampling methodologies are discussed as well as dating, ‘levels’, and the grouping of buildings into social sectors. The excavations in three areas of the East Mound at Çatalhöyük are described: the South Area, the 4040 Area in the northern part of the site, and the IST Area excavated by a team from Istanbul University. The description of excavated units, features and buildings incorporates results from the analyses of animal bone, chipped stone, groundstone, shell, ceramics, phytoliths, micromorphology. The integration of such data within their context allows detailed accounts of the lives of the inhabitants of Çatalhöyük, their relationships and activities. The integration of different types of data in the excavation account mimics the process of collaborative interpretation that took place during the excavation and post-excavation process.