ÇATALHÖYÜK 1999 ARCHIVE REPORT 

Table 3. List of interdisciplinary analyses, numbers of samples and co-ordinating institutions, Çatalhöyük 1999.

Co-ordinating institutions

Sample type

Analysis

Number of samples

Middle East Technical University

Non-museum worthy fragments of obsidian

ICP AES

58

Middle East Technical University

Charred plant remains

DNA

2

Middle East Technical University

Mudbricks and mortars

Optically stimulated luminescence dating

2

Middle East Technical University

Sediments

Phosphate, geochemical and mineralogical analyses

312

Middle East Technical University

Stone

Associated pigment

Geological, including petrology

43

1

Berkeley University and Middle East Technical University

Non-museum-worthy framents of clay balls

Comparative sediments

Petrographic and XRD

74

21

Cambridge University, Natural History Museum, Oxford University

Human bone and teeth

Stable isotope

DNA

Histology

64

27

13

Cambridge University, London University

Animal bone and teeth

DNA

13

Cambridge University

Sediment

Micromorphology

SEM

109

Cambridge University,

Plymouth University

Sediment

Palaeoecology

7 monoliths

Cambridge University,

Bristol University

Sediment

Non-museum worthy fragments:

clay ball

pottery

stone

pigment

Organic residue

 

 

 

 

Organic residue and XRF

22

 

23

1

11

1

Liverpool University

Non-museum worthy fragments of pottery (Survey project)

Petrographic

91

CNRS, France

Non-museum worthy fragments of obsidian

XRF

50

Wisconsin University

Sediment

ICP AES

308

Berkeley University, London University

Phytoliths

Anatomical identification

98

Berkeley University

Sediment

Starch

7

Cornell University

Charred wood

Dendrochronology

5



© Çatalhöyük Research Project and individual authors, 1999