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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Çatal Mound (Turkey). --- Turkey --- Antiquities. --- Çatal Mound (Turkey) --- Çatal Hüyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük Mounds (Turkey) --- Antiquities

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This newest volume in the Çatalhöyük Research Project Series continues the interpretation of the material obtained during excavation of the site from 2009 to 2017 under the direction of Professor Ian Hodder. Çatalhöyük, a 9,000-year-old tell site in central Turkey, is of international importance due to its large size at an early date, its dense population and its long occupation. Its well-preserved buildings and rich art in the Neolithic East Mound give a unique insight into early village life, and the site allows study of many of the main questions dealing with the formation of settled villages/towns and the early intensification of agriculture. This volume, in 16 chapters by project specialists, focuses on the material artefacts recovered from the site, including a range of clay objects (ceramics, clay balls, tokens, figurines) and others made of stone, shell and textile. The analysis of these items, within a framework of intersecting and transformative ?flows? of matter that are entangled with human aims and strategies, illuminates issues of procurement and exchange, house and community (including shifting cooking practices and the early management of cattle), and the organisation of production. Collectively, they reveal how change was generated across 1,100 years of occupation by the ?productive potential? of things

Neolithic period --- Pottery, Ancient --- Çatal Mound (Turkey) --- Antiquities. --- Çatal Mound (Turkey) --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Çatal Hüyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük Mounds (Turkey) --- Turkey --- Antiquities --- Ancient pottery --- Pottery

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This book addresses a paradox concerning the role of clay at Çatalhöyük that arises from conflicting material culture and landscape views of what clay truly afforded this early agricultural community. The highly-developed and artistically rich clay-based material culture points to clay being a major contributor to the site's success. However, the underlying thick, impermeable clay beds are also thought to have impeded the drainage of seasonal floods, periodically isolating the community in extensive wetlands and clearly hostile to early agriculture. A landscape re-appraisal is made based on the recognition that the heavier clay artifacts must have been locally sourced and can therefore be read as direct samples of the local Neolithic landscape. The result is a revised landscape interpretation that no longer conflicts with the observed patterns of clay use or broader subsistence practice at Çatalhöyük. Clay’s role is re-examined in this revised landscape context to demonstrate a fuller and more complex picture than previously thought.

Clay --- Material culture --- Neolithic period --- Landscape archaeology --- Çatal Mound (Turkey) --- Turkey --- Antiquities. --- Landscape archaeology and ecology --- Çatal Hüyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük Mounds (Turkey) --- Antiquities --- Aluminum silicates --- Binders (Materials) --- Sediments (Geology) --- Soils --- Archaeology --- Cultural landscapes --- New Stone age --- Stone age

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Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Neolithic period --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Prehistoric antiquities --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistory --- Prehistoric peoples --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Çatal Mound (Turkey) --- Konya İli (Turkey) --- Çatal Hüyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük Mounds (Turkey) --- Turkey --- Konya, Turkey (Province) --- Karaman İli (Turkey) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Konya İli (Turkey) --- Çatal Mound (Turkey). --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Néolithique --- Antiquités --- Çatal Höyük (Turquie ; site archéologique)

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This volume brings together two groups engaged with understanding the relationships between religion and violence. The first group consists of scholars of the mimetic theory of René Girard, for whom human violence is rooted in the rivalry that stems from imitation. To manage this violence of all against all, humans often turn to violence against one, the scapegoat, thereafter incorporated into ritual. The second group consists of archaeologists working at the Neolithic sites of Çatalhöyük and Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. At both sites there is evidence of religious practices that center on wild animals, often large and dangerous in form. Is it possible that these wild animals were ritually killed in the ways suggested by Girardian theorists? Were violence and the sacred intimately entwined and were these the processes that made possible and even stimulated the origins of farming in the ancient Near East? In this volume, Ian Hodder and a team of contributors seek to answer these questions by linking theory and data in exciting new ways.

Violence --- Religion, Prehistoric --- Neolithic period --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric antiquities --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistory --- Prehistoric peoples --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- New Stone age --- Stone age --- Prehistoric religion --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Girard, René, --- Çatal Mound (Turkey) --- Çatal Hüyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük (Turkey) --- Çatalhöyük Mounds (Turkey) --- Turkey --- Antiquities