Excavating Çatalhöyük : South, North and Kopal area reports from the 1995-1999 seasons / by members of the Çatalhöyük teams, edited by Ian Hodder.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains PDF document files and QuickTime video files.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-588)

Part 1. Introduction and Synthesis / Ian Hodder with contributions by Craig Cessford, Shahina Farid, Andy Fairbairn, Nerissa Russel, Louise Martin & Sarah Cross May -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Methods and Approach / Ian Hodder, Craig Cessford & Shahina Farid -- Chapter 2. Summary of Results / Ian Hodder -- Part 2. Neolithic Excavations in the South Area, East Mound, Çatalhöyük 1995-99 / Shahina Farid with contributions by Başak Boz, Craig Cessford, Anwen Cooper, Duncan Garrow, Charlie Newman & Richard Turnbull -- Chapter 3. Introduction to the South Area Excavations / Shahina Farid -- Chapter 4. Level Pre-XII-A and Levels XII and XI, Spaces 181, 199 and 198 / Craig Cessford -- Chapter 5. Level X Relative Heights, Buildings 23 & 18 and Building 9 / Shahina Farid -- Chapter 6. Level IX Relative Heights, Building 2, Buildings 22 & 16 and Building 17/ Shahina Farid -- Chapter 7. Level VIII : Space 161, Space 162, Building 4, Space 115, Building 21 & 17, Building 6 and Relative Heights of Level VIII / Shahina Farid -- Chapter 8. Level VII : Space 113, Space 112, Space 105, Space 109, Building 40, Space 106, Spaces 168 & 169, Buildings 8 & 20, Building 24 and Relative Heights of Level VII / Shahina Farid -- Chapter 9. Level VI.B Space 160 and Concluding Remarks on the South Area Excavations / Shahina Farid -- Part 3. Neolithic Excavations in the North Area, East Mound, Çatalhöyük 1995-98 / Craig Cessford with contributions by Gavin Lucas, Adnan Baysal & Asa Berggren -- Chapter 10. History of Excavation of Buildings 1 and 5 and Summary of Phases / Craig Cessford -- Chapter 11. Building 5 / Craig Cessford -- Chapter 12. Building 1 / Craig Cessford -- Chapter 13. Overall Discussion of Buildings 1 and 5 / Craig Cessford) -- Part 4. The KOPAL Research Programme at Çatalhöyük (1996-2001) / Neil Roberts, Peter Boyer & Jamie Merrick with contributions by Warren J. Eastwood & Huw I. Griffiths -- Chapter 14. The KOPAL On-site and Off-site Excavations and Sampling / Neil Roberts, Peter Boyer & Jamie Merrick -- Chapter 15. Pollen Analysis at Çatalhöyük / Warren J. Eastwood, Neil Roberts & Peter Boyer.

This volume represents the third major publication by the Çatalhöyük Research Project, following on from a first volume related to the initial phase of surface work (Hodder 1996) and a second volume dealing with methodological/theoretical issues (Hodder 2000). It is concerned with presenting the results of excavations of three areas at Çatalhöyük, known as South (Chapter 2), North (Chapter 3) and KOPAL (Chapter 4), between 1995 and 1999. Further volumes will present detailed specialist reports (Volumes 4 & 5) and thematic discussions (Volume 6) related to these excavations. This volume outlines the general aims and history of the Çatalhöyük Research Project between 1995 and 2002 covering the period of excavation and post-excavation work on the areas in question. It describes aspects of the excavation, recording and sampling methodologies that are necessary for an understanding of the results presented. Specific issues that affect the understanding of the results, particularly concerning dating, ‘levels' and the relationship between material found in/on floors and activities that took place on those floors will also be considered. Finally the major implications and results of the excavations will be considered and placed in their regional context. While at one level this volume presents the results of excavations, followed by volumes dealing with analysis of excavated data (Volumes 4 & 5), followed by synthesis and interpretation (Volume 6), at another level an attempt has been made to avoid the notion that data are presented followed by interpretation. Although this volume does describe the excavation of buildings, features and units, it also incorporates interpretive discussion. It brings in data from the study of animal bones, lithics, ceramics, micromorphology and the full suite of analyses conducted on the material, in order to make sense of the buildings, features and units. The ‘descriptions' of the archaeological features are embedded within information and quotes from a wide range of specialists who have studied the material from the site. These commentaries, and the conclusions drawn from them, are developed forms of the ‘priority tours' that took place around the trenches during the excavation. They mimic the process of collaborative interpretation that took place during the excavation and post-excavation process. The ‘descriptions' of the archaeology are thus exposed as interpretations involving a balancing of a variety of different types of data. They are synthetic interpretations that take place in the generation of data.