ÇATALHÖYÜK 2005 ARCHIVE REPORT

STUDY SEASON REPORTS

West Mound Project - Batı Höyüğü

Catriona Gibson and Jonathan Last

Abstract

Following the study season in 2004, the West Mound Project team are in the process of drafting a publication text, which will now be completed during 2006-7.  As part of this work, a brief visit to the site by the project directors was required to complete the recording of the large pottery assemblage, and to discuss the remaining programmes of analysis (botanical remains, groundstone) with the relevant specialists.  Tentative plans for future investigations on the West Mound were also discussed.

Özet

2004 sezonunu takiben, Batı Höyüğü ekibi 2006-7 yılında tamamlanması planlanan yayının çalışmasını yapmaktadır. Bu sebeple, hem büyük seramiklerin kaydını tamamlamak hem de geriye kalan botani kalıntılarının ve öğütme taşlarının analizi konusunda uzmanlarla tartışmak amacıyla Çatalhöyük’e kısa bir ziyaret yapıldı. Batı Höyüğü’ nde yapılması planlanan araştırmalar da tartışıldı.

Following the study season in 2004, the West Mound Project team are in the process of drafting a publication text, which will now be completed during 2006-7.  As part of this work, a brief visit to the site by the project directors was required to complete the recording of the large pottery assemblage, and to discuss the remaining programmes of analysis (botanical remains, groundstone) with the relevant specialists.  Tentative plans for future investigations on the West Mound were also discussed.

Chalcolithic Pottery
Further analysis was undertaken for selected units where only a small number of sherds had previously been studied.  The programme of digital photography of sherds on a unit-by-unit basis to supplement the written pro forma sheets was extended, and the digital archive now comprises some 1960 images.  The small assemblage of potstands was also analysed and photographed (87 images).

An additional task involved laying out as a whole the large assemblage of pottery from the small space 221 (units 7794, 9025, 9034) in order to look for sherd joins and reconstructable vessels.  As a result a small number of pots could be restored by the conservators, including the basket-handled jar shown in Fig. 1.

Botanical Remains
Analysis of selected flots is currently being undertaken in Nottingham by Nikki Stone under the supervision of Amy Bogaard.

Groundstone