ÇATAL NEWS 3
THE NEWSLETTER OF THE ÇATALHÖYÜK RESEARCH TRUST
December 1996
1996 Excavations in the Mellaart area with the wall lifting machinery on the right
This Newsletter is designed for the Friends of Çatalhöyük. Its aim is to keep the Friends informed of the activities of the Trust and of the different aspects of the research being conducted at Çatalhöyük. Work restarted at the site in 1993. After the 1996 season, this is the first opportunity to pass on information about what discoveries were made. This Newsletter also looks at what has been achieved so far in non-field areas and what is planned for the future.
Newsletter 3 Contents:
- Introduction
- The 1996 Excavation Season
- Konya Basin Palaeoenvironment Research Programme 1996
- Konya Plain Çatalhöyük Regional Survey
- Geophysical prospection
- Micromorphology
- Çatalhöyük Ethnoarchaeological Field Study Summer 1996
- Other projects
- Funding
- The Team 1996
- The Turkish Friends
- Future Plans
- Acknowledgements