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Çatalhöyük 2006 Archive Report ÇATALHÖYÜK 2006 ARCHIVE REPORT Çatalhöyük Research Project CONTENTS i LIST OF FIGURES iii & TABLES vii INTRODUCTION – Ian Hodder 1 RAPORU GIRISI – Ian Hodder 9 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS/ TEŞEKKÜRLER 13 THE FIELD TEAM 2006 15 EXCAVATIONS Introduction – Shahina Farid 17 4040 Area Post-Neolithic activity / Neolitik Sonrası Aktiviteler – Doru Bogdan, LisaYeomans, Shahina Farid 22 Neolithic Sequence Space 60 & Space 90 / Alan 60 & 90 – Lisa Yeomans 26 Space 279 / Alan 279 – Lisa Yeomans 27 Space 280 & Building 66 / Alan 280 ve Bina 66 - Richard Turnbull 30 Space 306 & Space 309 / Alan 306 & 309 – Lisa Yeomans 33 Building 64 / Bina 64 – Lisa Yeomans 35 Building 60 / Bina 60 – Mike House 39 Building 59 / Bina 59 – David Brown, Lisa Yeomans 47 Building 58 / Bina 58 - Maria Duggan, Shahina Farid 54 Building 67 / Bina 67 – Mike House 58 Buildings 51 & 52 / Bina 51& 52 - Doru Bogdan, Dan Eddisford 64 Building 49 / Bina 49 - Daniel Eddisford 71 SOUTH Area Building 53, Spaces 257 & 272 /Bina 53 – Simon McCann 79 Space 261/Alan 261 – David Brown 84 Buildings 56 & 65 / Bina 56 ve 65 - Roddy Regan 89 TP Area /TP Alanı – Lech Czerniak, Arkadiusz Marciniak 104 IST Area / İST Alanı - Mihriban Özbaşaran, Güneş Duru 115 West Mound /Batı Höyük - Peter F. Biehl, Burcin Erdoğu, Eva Rosenstock 122 SEL Area / SEL Alanı - Asuman Baldiran, Zafer Korkmaz 134 CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS REPORTS Animal Bones - Nerissa Russell, Katheryn Twiss, Kamilla Pawlowska, Liz Henton 141 Worked Bone - Rebecca Daly 153 Human Remains - Başak Boz, Lori D. Hager, Scott Haddow with contributions by Simon Hillson, Clark S. Larsen, Christopher Ruff, Marin Pilloud, Sabrina Agarwal, Patrick Beauchesne, Bonnie Glencross, Lesley Gregorika 157 Human Remains Research Projects 2006 169 Macro Botanical Remains - Amy Bogaard, Mike Charles 172 Phytoliths - Philippa Ryan, Arlene Rosen 174 Pottery - Nurcan Yalman 181 FigurineS- Carolyn Nakamura, Lynn Meskell 226 Chipped Stone Report - Tristan Carter, Nurcan Kayacan, Marina Milić, Marcin Waş, Chris Doherty 241 Bead Technology - Katherine I. (Karen) Wright 280 Micromorphology - Wendy Matthews, Joanne Wiles & Matthew Almond 285 i Microanalysis and organic residues of middens - Lisa-Marie Shillito 295 The use of clay at Çatalhöyük - Chris Doherty 298 SUPPORT TEAM REPORTS Conservation - Duygu Camurcuoglu Cleere, Margrethe Felter 315 Conservation Research Projects 319 Finds System 2006 – Julie Cassidy 334 Archaeological Illustration – John G.H. Swogger 339 IT Team - Mia Ridge & Sarah Jones 352 OUTREACH PROJECTS Childrens’ Archaeological Summer School - Gülay Sert 360 Community Archaeology - Sonya Atalay 362 RESEARCH PROJECTS Building Neolithic Communities Through Mud Brick Architecture - Serena Love 376 Building materials and the making of tradition - Burcu Tung 388 ii LIST OF FIGURES Front cover: ‘Face pot’, sherds from midden deposits in Space 279, 4040 Area Figure 1: Excavation areas on Çatalhöyük East and West mounds and off-site. 2 Figure 2: An overhead view of Building 65 in the South Area. South is to the left. 3 Figure 3: Burial of an individual without arms, shoulder blades and legs in Building 49. 3 Figure 4: Uncovering a geometric painting in Building 49. 4 Figure 5: Overall view of Building 59. South is to the upper left. 4 Figure 6: Red painted dado on the lower part of the wall by the east central platform in Building 59. 5 Figure 7: Pits dug into Building 64 in the 4040 Area. 6 Figure 8: Fragments of a Neolithic face pot from midden in the 4040 Area. 6 Figure 9: Çatalhöyük Summer School 6 Figure 10: With funding from the Global Heritage Fund, a fence was constructed around the West Mound 7 Figure 11: For some visitors, the journey to Çatalhöyük is a pilgrimage. Below, ground work began on a garden to the north of the dighouse 7 Figure 12: A Çatalhöyük exhibition called Topraktan Sonsuzluğa (From Earth to Eternity) 11 Figure 13: Templeton Foundation seminar group 12 Figure 14: Villagers from Küçükköy were invited for tours and dinner at the site. 14 Figure 15: Buildings excavated in the 4040 Area by year. 21 Figure 16: F.1470, Building 41 24 Figure 17: Burial F.1475 in a simple grave cut. 25 Figure 18: Burial F.1476, stone lined sides. 25 Figure 19: A series of inter-cutting pits in Space 279. 28 Figure 20: Reconstruction of pit digging. 29 Figure 21: Tip lines suggest how the waste material was dumped in the pits. 29 Figure 22: Examples of clay figures from midden deposits in Space 280. From left to right 13167.X10, 13167.X7, 13143.X3 & 13142.X3. 32 Figure 23: Horncores (13194) in abandoned Building 66. 33 Figure 24: Space 309 in the southern sector of the 10x40. 34 Figure 25: Plan of Building 64. 36 Figure 26: Heavily pitted Building 64, looking south. 37 Figure 27: Horncores of a wild sheep (13153), found on platform F.2240. 38 Figure 28: Surviving portion of Building 60, looking N. 40 Figure 29: Scoop (13109) by the ladder scar contained a group of obsidian pieces (13111). 41 Figure 30: Pilaster F.2224 after the removal of platform F.2225 to the left and showing bench F.2213. 41 Figure 31: Multiple burial cutting platform F.2225, looking SW. 44 Figure 32: Plan of Building 59. 48 Figure 33. Platforms in the NE corner were exposed and a threshold leading into Space 276 (top right). 49 Figure 34: Exposing the 2.15 x 0.55 meter red panel wall painting between 2 post retrieval pits on the east wall of Building 59. 49 Figure 35: Space 311 is made up of 5 platforms and a sunken ‘dirty’ area in the southeast corner where there is a ladder scar in the south wall face. 50 Figure 36: NW platform in Space 311 showing centrally located removal scars at the edges. 50 Figure 37: Space 313, looking NW. Oven in the SW corner, hearth centre right - against a large retrieval pit and remnants of basin/bin features against south and west walls. 51 Figure 38: Post retrieval pit (14603). 52 Figure 39: Plan of Building 58. 55 Figure 40: A number of floors from the central area of Space 227. 56 Figure 41: Enigmatic feature F.2251 against the north wall. 57 Figure 42: Hearth F.2122 sitting the NE corner of platform F.2128. 57 Figure 43: Plan of Building 67. 59 Figure 44: Building 67, looking SE. 60 Figure 45: Space 292. 61 Figure 46: Plastered alcove looking E from Building 58. 62 Figure 47: Obsidian blade core (13446.X1) found in the between wall gap. 64 iii Figure 48: Plan of Building 51 as excavated in 2005. 65 Figure 49: 2006 excavations took place in greyed outline of Building 52. 66 Figure 50: Plan of Building 52 as recorded in 2005. 67 Figure 51: NE portion of Building 52 after the removal of Building 51, looking south. 68 Figure 52: NE portion of Building 52 after removal of Building 51, looking N. 69 Figure 53: Space 290, looking E. 70 Figure 54: Plan of Building 49 as at the end of 2006 after excavation of late features. 71 Figure 55: Post retrieval pit F.1496 at back of pedestal F.1653 with red paint. 72 Figure 56: A small horn core (13640.X1), a juvenile horse skull (13640.X2) and burnt cattle radius (13640.X3), were within the fill of post retrieval pit F.1493. 72 Figure 57: Plan of Building 49 showing late features. 73 Figure 58: Limbless skeleton of an older male F.1492. 74 Figure 59: Enigmatic bin-type feature F.1495. 74 Figure 60: Looking W with oven/hearth F.1665 mid left. 75 Figure 61: Features on and around platform F.1666 in the SW corner. 76 Figure 62: Geometric painting on wall F.1661. 77 Figure 63: Detail of superimposed geometric pattern on wall F.1661. 78 Figure 64: Plan of Building 53 and features. 80 Figure 65: Construction phase of Building 53. 81 Figure 66: Cluster of stones (12516) found at the construction phase of Building 53 in the location of NE platform F.1525. 82 Figure 67: Building rubble, pits and midden in Space 261. 84 Figure 68: Pit F.1531. 86 Figure 69: Section through midden filled pits. 87 Figure 70: Working shot of Building 65 to the left, Building 68 top right and Space 119 foreground right. 90 Figure 71: Space 123, on the edge of the excavation area, E is to the top. 91 Figure 72: Location of Spaces 118 over Building 68 and 119 over Building 69. 91 Figure 73: Building 56. W is to the top. 93 Figure 74: Burial F.2082 that cut through the NW platform in the alcove of Building 56. 95 Phytolith traces of binding can be seen across the legs. Figure 75: Inter-building activity horizon. 98 Figure 76: Plan of Building 65. 99 Figure 77: End-phase of Building 65, looking NW. 100 Figure 78: Cluster (14019) of mainly bone and stone found on top of platform F.2099. 101 Figure 79: Entrance to oven F.2090 pre-excavation, charcoal/use deposit (13373) seen in the entrance (left), stone packing (14078) on the base of the oven (right). 102 Figure 80: Mid-phase Building 65, looking SW. 103 Figure 81: Building 61. The oldest floor. 106 Figure 82: Building 61. A solid clay make up layer of the oldest floor. 107 Figure 83: Building 61. A small band of truncated floor (12283) from the middle phase of the Building occupation along with the eastern platform (11529). 107 Figure 84: Building 61. Make up layer (12295) of the youngest floor made of white pebbles. 108 Figure 85: Building 61. Brown floor (12294) from the youngest phase over white pebble make up layer (12295).
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