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Last house on the hill : BACH area reports from Çatalhöyük, Turkey /

Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Occupied from around 7500 BC to 5700 BC, the large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk in Anatolia is composed entirely of domestic buildings; no public buildings have been identified. First excavated in the early 1960s, the site was le...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tringham, Ruth (Editor ), Stevanović, Mirjana (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Los Angeles : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2012.
Colección:Monumenta archaeologica ; 27.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to the BACH project
  • PART 1. Strategies of research, analysis, and interpretation
  • Research methodology
  • Creating and archiving the media database and documentation of excavation
  • PART 2. Retrieving and understanding the sequence of depositional events of the buildings
  • Summary of results of the excavation in the BACH area
  • Detailed report of the excavation of building 3 and spaces 87, 88, and 89 (1997-2003)
  • Building and caring for the house at Catalhoyuk
  • Household life histories and boundaries : microstratigraphy and micromorphology of architectural surfaces in building 3 (BACH)
  • PART 3. Human-environment relations in the BACH area
  • Mammals from the BACH area
  • Bird remains from the BACH area
  • The microfauna of the BACH area
  • The phytoliths of the BACH area
  • The life of building 3 through plant use : the macrobotanical evidence of neolithic dwelling from the BACH excavations, 1997-2003
  • Death and its relationship to life : neolithic burials from building 3 and space 87
  • Post-neolithic use of building 3 (space 86), space 88, and space 89
  • PART 4. Chancing materialities in the BACH area
  • Worked bone from the BACH area
  • Neolithic pottery from the BACH excavation
  • Figurines of the BACH area
  • Analysis of clay ball materials from the BACH area
  • The flaked stone assemblage from the BACH area
  • Ground stone tools and technologies associated with buildings in the BACH area
  • Beads and the body : ornament technologies of the BACH area buildings
  • PART 5. Taking the analyses and interpretations one step further : alternative (nontraditional) directions of BACH research
  • Building the replica neolithic house at Catalhoyuk
  • Catalhoyuk murals : a snapshot of conservation and experimental research
  • An archaeology of vision : seeing present and past in Catalhoyuk
  • The public face of archaeology at Catalhoyuk
  • Sensing the place of Catalhoyuk : the rhythms of daily life
  • Creating the digital mirror of Last House on the Hill.