ÇATAL NEWS 4
THE NEWSLETTER OF THE ÇATALHÖYÜK RESEARCH PROJECT
December 1997
Figure 1: Photograph from the air, showing the dig house to top the left and the mound with the Mellaart and Summit excavation areas to the bottom right, and the North area and Bach area with the new shelter on the top right.
This Newsletter is designed for the Friends of Çatalhöyük. Its aim is to keep the Friends informed of the activities of the Project and of the different aspects of the research being conducted at Çatalhöyük. Work restarted at the site in 1993. After the 1997 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 4 Contents:
- Introduction
- The 1997 on-site Team
- Anthropology at Çatalhöyük
- The Excavations 1998
- Konya Basin Palaeoenvironment Research Programme 1997
- Micromorphology and Sampling
- The human remains
- Animal Bones
- Bone Tools
- Archaeobotany
- The Pottery
- The Lithics
- Figurines and Grave Goods
- Groundstones
- Public Programming and Displays
- Acknowledgements
Directions: pressing the daggers with move you forward and backward in the Çatal Newsletter. Clicking the clay figurine will give you a table of contents.