Last House on the Hill

(printed edition)

BACH Area Reports from Çatalhöyük, Turkey

 

edited by Ruth Tringham and Mirjana Stevanović


Chapters

Chapter 1  Introduction to the BACH Project  more.......

Ruth Tringham and Mirjana Stevanović


Part 1.Strategies of research, analysis and interpretation


Chapter 2  Research Methodology    more.....

Ruth Tringham and Mirjana Stevanović


Chapter 3Creating and Archiving the media database and documentation of the BACH project more..

Ruth Tringham and Michael Ashley with Jason Quinlan


Part 2. Retrieving and Understanding the Sequence of Depositional Events of the Buildings: Excavation, Stratigraphy, Chronology, Architecture, Soils


Chapter 4Summary of the Results of the Excavation in the BACH Area

Mirjana Stevanović


Chapter 5  Detailed Report of the Excavation of Building 3 and Spaces 87, 88, 89

Mirjana Stevanović


Chapter 6Building and Caring for the House at Çatalhöyük

Mirjana Stevanović


Chapter 7Household life-histories and boundaries: microstratigraphy and micromorphology of architectural surfaces in Building 3 of the BACH Area

Wendy Matthews


Part 3.Human-Environment Relations in the BACH Area


Chapter 8 Mammals from the BACH Area at Çatalhöyük

Nerissa Russell


Chapter 9  Bird Remains from the BACH Area at Çatalhöyük

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  12The  life of Building 3 through plant use: The macrobotanical evidence of Neolithic dwelling from the Berkeley Archaeology at Çatalhöyük (BACH) excavation 1997-2003

Rachel M. Cane, Rob Q. Cuthrell, Matthew P. Sayre, K. Elizabeth Soluri, and Christine A. Hastorf (with Kathryn Killackey and Shanti Morell-Hart)


Chapter 13Death and its Relationship to Life: Neolithic Burials from Building 3 and Space 87 at Çatalhöyük,

Lori D. Hager and Başak Boz


Chapter 14  Post-Neolithic Use of Building 3 and Spaces 88 and 89 at Çatalhöyük

Daniela Cottica, Lori D. Hager and Başak Boz


Part 4.Changing Materialities in the BACH Area


Chapter 15         Worked Bone from the BACH Area at Çatalhöyük

Nerissa Russell


Chapter 16 Neolithic Pottery from the BACH Excavation

Jonathan Last


Chapter 17 The BACH Area Figurines

Carolyn Nakamura


Chapter 18 Analysis of Clay Balls from the BACH Area

Sonya Atalay


Chapter 19The Flaked Stone Assemblage from the BACH Area

Tristan Carter and Heidi Mariendahl Underbjerg


Chapter 20Ground stone tools and technologies associated with buildings in the BACH Area at Çatalhöyük

Katherine I. Wright and Adnan Baysal


Chapter  21Beads and the body: ornamental technologies of the BACH Area buildings at Çatalhöyük

Katherine I. Wright


Part 5. Taking the Analyses and Interpretations one step further: Alternative (non-traditional) directions of BACH Research


Chapter 22Building the Replica Neolithic House at Çatalhöyük

Mirjana Stevanović


Chapter 23 Çatalhöyük Murals: A snapshot 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  more...

Ruth Tringham


Chapter 26Sensing the Place at Çatalhöyük: the rhythms of daily life   more....

Ruth Tringham



Preface

Introduction

Afterword

photo: Michael Ashley