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James Mellaart 1925–2012
JAMES MELLAART James Mellaart 1925–2012 JAMES MELLAART was born on 14 November 1925 at 466 Oxford Street, London, the son of Jacob Herman Jan Mellaart, a specialist in fine art, and Apollonia Dingena Mellaart (formerly van der Beek). James Mellaart’s Dutch immigrant father claimed descent from a Scottish clan called Maclarty (part of the Macdonald Clan) and James in later life listed clan history and Gaelic music among his interests, though he always spoke with a pronounced Dutch accent. As a result of economic difficulties caused by the depression, the family, including one sister, moved back from London to Amsterdam in 1932. His mother died there and his father remarried. James went to various schools throughout the Netherlands. During the German occupation from 1940 the family moved to Maastricht and James worked at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, where he also studied Egyptian languages. Determined to be an archaeologist, Mellaart started his BA in Egyptology at University College London in 1947, with a particular inter- est in the Sea Peoples and their activities in the eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium BC. During his time as an undergraduate he also worked on excavations conducted by Kathleen Kenyon at the Iron Age site of Sutton Walls in south-west England. On graduating in 1951, Mellaart began a two-year fellowship at the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara (BIAA, now the British Institute at Ankara) that focused on sur- vey of archaeological sites in south-western Turkey. Since he could not drive, he used buses and trains to reach the areas he wished to examine before undertaking long foot surveys. -
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My Meeting with Mellaart or, Dutch Cigars and the Case of the Missing Wall Paintings By Alex Joffe As a young and arrogant graduate student in the 1980s I had a way of barging in unannounced on famous archaeologists. So it was in 1987 or so that I knocked on a door at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. A short and roundish man answered. This was James Mellaart, famed excavator of the even more famous Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük. James Mellaart. I introduced myself and was politely received. Though he was most famous for his work on the Neolithic, I wanted to talk to him about his views on the fifth-fourth millennia BCE. Perhaps fortuitously he had a class soon but could speak after. He invited me to attend. And this was when I learned of the unpublished Çatalhöyük wall paintings. Many had been excavated and published in the early 1960s but somehow drawings of others had appeared during the 1980s, and these were the subject of his talk. I no longer have my notes but I recall lots of animals and birds, geometric designs, an erupting volcano, and ‘goddesses.’ Mellaart rather bubbled over when he spoke of their large breasts and perhaps should have been a clue. A more obvious clue was that there were no photos of these wall paintings, only line drawings and reconstructions. Reconstructed wall painting from Çatalhöyük showing the Erciyes Dağ volcano. Reconstructed wall painting from Çatalhöyük showing a ‘goddess’ flanked by aurochs. Mellaart had begun working in the Near East in the early 1950s, a wholly different era, perhaps even more primitive than the 1940s. -
EFFORTLESS THINKING Why Some Ideas Come Naturally to Us – and Why They’Re Usually Wrong
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ANATOLIAN STUDIES VOLUME 62 Journal of the British Institute at Ankara ANATOLIAN
ISSN: 0066-1546 ANATOLIAN STUDIES 62 VOLUME Journal of the British Institute at Ankara ANATOLIAN . 2012 STUDIES Journal of the British Institute at Ankara VOLUME 62 . 2012 ARTICLES 1 The evolution of animal husbandry in Neolithic central-west Anatolia: the zooarchaeological record from Ulucak Höyük (c. 7040–5660 cal. BC, Izmir, Turkey) Canan Çakırlar 35 Revisiting prehistoric sites in the Göksu valley: a GIS and social network approach Peter Bikoulis ANATOLIAN 61 Bronze Age Trojan artefacts in Poland: some remarks Dariusz Maliszewski 69 The house of Tarkondimotos: a late Hellenistic dynasty between Rome and the East Nicholas L. Wright 89 Primary evidence for Late Roman D Ware production in southern Asia Minor: a challenge to ‘Cypriot Red Slip Ware’ Mark Jackson, Michael Zelle, Lutgarde Vandeput and Veli Köse STUDIES 115 A monument of early Byzantine Sardis: architectural analysis and graphic reconstruction of Building D Nikolaos D. Karydis 141 Liberalism in the Turkish context and its historiography: past and present Hilmi Ozan Özavcı 153 Excavating a memory: the British in Georgia Paul Everill 62 VOLUME 62 . 2012 Cambridge Journals online For further information about this journal please go to the journal web site at http://www.journals.cambridge.org/jhs Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.229, on 02 Oct 2021 at 06:44:12, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154612000099 ANATOLIAN STUDIES Journal of the British Institute at Ankara THE BRITISH INSTITUTE AT ANKARA Anatolian Studies is the flagship journal of the British Institute at INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIBERS The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), founded in 1948 and Subscription to the Institute costs £40 per annum (£20 for students Ankara (BIAA). -
Conservation Practices at Foreign-Run Archaeological Excavations in Turkey: a Critical Review
CONSERVATION PRACTICES AT FOREIGN-RUN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN TURKEY: A CRITICAL REVIEW A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BY BİLGE NİLGÜN ÖZ WOOD IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN CONSERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN ARCHITECTURE DECEMBER 2017 Approval of the Thesis: CONSERVATION PRACTICES AT FOREIGN-RUN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN TURKEY: A CRITICAL REVIEW submitted by BİLGE NİLGÜN ÖZ WOOD in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Architecture Department, Middle East Technical University by, Prof. Dr. Gülbin Dural Ünver _____________ Dean, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences Prof. Dr. T. Elvan Altan _____________ Head of Department, Architecture Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz _____________ Supervisor, Architecture Department, METU Examining Committee Members: Prof. Dr. Neriman Şahin Güçhan _____________ Architecture Department, METU Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz _____________ Architecture Department, METU Prof. Dr. D. Burcu Erciyas _____________ City and Regional Planning Department, METU Prof. Dr. M. Cengiz Can _____________ Architecture Department, Yıldız Technical University Senior Lecturer Alan M. Greaves (UK) _____________ Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool Date: 08.12.2017 I hereby declare that all information in this document has been obtained and presented in accordance with academic rules and ethical conduct. I also declare that, as required by these rules and conduct, I have fully cited and referenced all material and results that are not original to this work. Name, Last Name : BİLGE NİLGÜN ÖZ WOOD Signature : iv ABSTRACT CONSERVATION PRACTICES AT FOREIGN-RUN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN TURKEY: A CRITICAL REVIEW Öz Wood, Bilge Nilgün Ph.D. -
Previously Published on Line: December 9, 2017 REDISCOVERED LUWIAN HIEROGLYPHIC INSCRIPTIONS from WESTERN ASIA MINOR (Supplement
TALANTA L (2018), 9 - 56 Previously published on line: December 9, 2017 REDISCOVERED LUWIAN HIEROGLYPHIC INSCRIPTIONS FROM WESTERN ASIA MINOR (Supplementum Epigraphicum Mediterraneum 42) Eberhard Zangger & Fred Woudhuizen EDITORIAL NOTE The announcement, earlier this year, of the publication of a monumental Luwian hieroglyphical inscription, supposedly found in Beyköy in the Phrygian highlands in 1878 but lost soon afterwards and only preserved in drawings, immediately trig- gered a lively debate among luwologists and many others. The debate soon mainly focused on the surmised falsification of the drawings, supposedly copies after the originals made by the French archaeologist Georges Perrot, which were retrieved from the estate of professor James Mellaart (1925-2012). This debate goes on, even though practically no one as yet ever has seen the drawings. The editors of Talanta are aware of the fact that James Mellaart has been invol- ved in a series of forgery cases, particularly the so-called Dorak affair (for a brief review on this see, e.g., <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorak_affair>) and his publication of non-documented wallpaintings and tablets from Çatalhöyük (for the paintings and his (ab)use of them see, e.g., <http://www.marlamallett.com/ chupdate.htm>). Simultaneously, the editors of Talanta are also aware of the fact that there are serious doubts whether Georges Perrot has been in western Asia Minor in 1878 at all. If, then, supposed copies of a series of drawings of Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions, allegedly made by Perrot at Beyköy in 1878, surface in the estate of Mellaart, it makes alarm bells go off – and, indeed, they did go off in our offices, loudly and clearly. -
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UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) What is drawn and written is not necessarily true. Contextualising Mellaart's fakes Stissi, V. Publication date 2018 Document Version Final published version Published in Talanta Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Stissi, V. (2018). What is drawn and written is not necessarily true. Contextualising Mellaart's fakes. Talanta, 50, 87-123. General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl) Download date:26 Sep 2021 TALANTA L (2018), 87 - 123 WHAT IS DRAWN AND WRITTEN IS NOT NECESSARILY TRUE. CONTEXTUALISING MELLAART’S FAKES (Supplementum Epigraphicum Mediterraneaeum 45) Vladimir Stissi The presentation, in 2017, of a monumental Luwian hieroglyphic inscription, sup- posedly found in Beyköy in Western Turkey in 1878, caused quite some commotion, not in the least because of the very unclear pedigree of the item. -
Prehistory and Early Civilizations
Popular Controversies in World History © 2011 ABC-Clio. All Rights Reserved. Volume One Prehistory and Early Civilizations Volume Two The Ancient World to the Early Middle Ages Volume Three The High Middle Ages to the Modern World Volume Four The Twentieth Century to the Present © 2011 ABC-Clio. All Rights Reserved. Popular Controversies in World History INVESTIGATING HISTORY’S INTRIGUING QUESTIONS Volume One Prehistory and Early Civilizations Steven L. Danver, Editor © 2011 ABC-Clio. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2011 by ABC-CLIO, LLC All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Popular controversies in world history : investigating history’s intriguing questions / Steven L. Danver, editor. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-59884-077-3 (hard copy : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-59884-078-0 (ebook) 1. History—Miscellanea. 2. Curiosities and wonders. I. Danver, Steven Laurence. D24.P67 2011 909—dc22 2010036572 ISBN: 978-1-59884-077-3 EISBN: 978-1-59884-078-0 14 13 12 11 1 2 3 4 5 This book is also available on the World Wide Web as an eBook. Visit www.abc-clio.com for details. ABC-CLIO, LLC 130 Cremona Drive, P.O. Box 1911 Santa Barbara, California 93116-1911 This book is printed on acid-free paper Manufactured in the United States of America © 2011 ABC-Clio.