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AIA Site Preservation Grant Awarded to Digital Preservation Project at Çatalhöyük, Turkey

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Image of excavations (left) at Çatalhöyük taken from an unmanned drone; close-up (right) of a structure at Çatalhöyük past and support the he 9,000-year-old mud- soil. To help combat the deterioration models that conservators can use to work of archaeologists, preserve brick structures at the site of of the site, the AIA awarded its most create preventive on-site interventions. Çatalhöyük, located on the Konya recent Site Preservation Grant to the The CDPP believes that its models endangered sites, and celebrate Tplain in Turkey, are threatened by their Çatalhöyük Digital Preservation Project will provide insights into problem areas own fragile composition and the region’s (CDPP). The CDPP, a collaboration that may otherwise have gone unnoticed our shared heritage. harsh climate. The site, a rare example of between Nicola Lercari from the Uni- and will also allow for the quantitative a well-preserved settlement, versity of California, Merced’s World assessment of the success of earlier was home to between 3,500 and 8,000 Heritage program and Ashley Lingle, conservation efforts. In addition to its people from about 7100 to 6200 b.c. head of conservation at Çatalhöyük, technical work, the CDPP will train stu- The houses in the streetless settlement proposes to use the vast amount of dents from Selçuk University in Konya were built back to back and accessed digital survey data collected from the site and the Middle East Technical Univer- via the roofs. In 2012 the settlement to create a strategy for monitoring and sity in Ankara, as well as specialists from was declared a World Heritage site conserving the archaeological remains. the Konya Archaeological Museum, to because of its importance to under- The project will use digital continue preservation work at the site standing human development and social and current monitoring strategies to after the CDPP wraps up in 2018. organization at a time when the first build a comprehensive view of the site in The AIA and the CDPP believe agricultural settlements were appearing its current state and create an informed that the methodology established at in southern Anatolia. The site has also conservation plan for the future. Çatalhöyük can serve as a model to be gained attention for its many symbolic By combining current non-digital emulated by projects at other sites that and ritual artifacts, including wall - site monitoring data with digital docu- are working to protect and preserve New Members: $70 for one year ArchAeology subscribers: Join for a ings and reliefs. mentation from environmental data large archaeological sites and those that (includes award-winning Archaeology special reader rate of just $40 —go to The decay of the site’s mudbrick loggers, terrestrial laser scanning, micro contain earthen structures. To read buildings can be attributed mainly to the unmanned aerial vehicles, multispec- more about this project and the AIA magazine)—go to archaeological.org/join archaeological.org/join and enter region’s arid climate and erosion caused tral and thermal imaging, and GIS, Site Preservation Program, visit www and enter promo code NM916 promo code RS916 by high levels of soluble salts in the the CDPP plans to develop predictive .archaeological.org/sitepreservation.

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Hiking Scotland’s Western Isles June 18-28, 2017 (11 days) with archaeologist Mary MacLeod Rivett

Hiking Scotland’s Orkney & Shetland Isles July 1-11, 2017 (11 days) with archaeologist Val Turner

© AAWT Ongoing excavations at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland.

“ is trip surpassed all my expectations!” - Gail, New York " is was my  fth trip with the AIA and one of the best ever...I loved every minute of the trip [and I] cannot recommend it enough. No wonder it sells out each year." - Leslie, California

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