ÇATAL NEWS 12
THE NEWSLETTER OF THE ÇATALHÖYÜK RESEARCH PROJECT
December 2005
A team of local women were trained to work alongside the conservators to systematically excavate large areas of wall plaster. |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- SEASON REVIEW
- THE 2005 FIELD TEAM
- 4040 AREA EXCAVATION
- SOUTH AREA EXCAVATION
- TP AREA EXCAVATION
- IST AREA EXCAVATION
- SELCUK SURVEY
- FINDS - Animal Bone
- FINDS - Microfauna
- FINDS - Human Remains
- FINDS - Macro-Botanical Remains
- FINDS - Phytoliths
- FINDS - Pottery
- FINDS - Figurines
- FINDS - Chipped Stone
- FINDS - Groundstone
- FINDS - Worked Bone
- ARCHITECTURE
- EXPERIMENTAL HOUSE
- CONSERVATION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- SPONSORS
- Joining the Friends of Çatalhöyük
Our newsletters aim to provide a brief outline of each season’s activities at Çatalhöyük. Highlights of the season’s excavations and finds are described as well as summaries of research programmes and events that took place on site. More detailed information is available in the archive report (http://www.catalhoyuk.com/archive_reports/2005/)
The project works in Turkey with a permit provided by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and under the auspices of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. Our main supporters are Stanford University in the USA, the the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, the University of Cambridge, and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in the UK, Selcuk University and Istanbul University in Turkey, and the University of Poznan and the Polish Heritage Council in Poland.
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