Current excavations at Çatalhöyük Continued excavations at Çatalhöyük are being directed by Ali Umut Türkcan from Anadolu University. The website of the new project is under construction. However, you can reach out to the director through the following link: https://akademik.anadolu.edu.tr/aturkcan

Çatalhöyük Research Project under Ian Hodder's direction ended in 2018 although publications are still in preparation. The data remain available on this website. The physical archive of the 25-year-project is stored and accessible through Stanford Library Special Collections. Please use the following link to access the special collections : https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12647164

The content of the first major exhibition about archaeological research at Çatalhöyük, which opened at Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) Gallery in 2017, is now available online: http://curiouscaseofcatalhoyuk.ku.edu.tr/

Rossella Biscotti, The City, 5-channel video and 8-channel audio installation, 50 minutes, 2018. This preview is for documentation purpose only.

Watch the preview here: http://www.catalhoyuk.com/video/city

The video installation subtly narrates past and present stories of Çatalhöyük. The artist Rossella Biscotti spent several months on site, documenting the international network of specialists, excavators and academics who are part of the Çatalhöyük Research Project, a living community uniting both professional agents and local actors.

In an associative montage of recorded material, Biscotti weaves together a narrative that links the ways of living and organisation of a very early form of society to the contemporary community. The timelessness of the narration gets interrupted by the sudden closure of the excavation site after the attempted military coup in Turkey in 2016. It brings us back to the here and now, pointing out the power relations that determine social structures and forms of organisation.