PUBLICATION PROGRAMMES
Both the West Mound Team and BACH Team completed their respective excavations last season and are now in publication programmes. Members from both teams spent time on site this season collating data and discussing publication plans. Two volumes are therefore in preparation. The West Mound Team is working on a monograph on the results of their excavations conducted between 1998 and 2003 and the BACH team on the results of their excavations of Building 3 from 1997 - 2003. The four volumes that the Cambridge – Stanford team have produced on excavations and research from 1995 -99 are due to be published by the end of 2005 in the McDonald Institute Monographs/British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara series. The forthcoming volumes are: Volume 3 - Excavating Çatalhöyük: South, North and KOPAL Area reports from the 1995-1999 seasons ; Volume 4 - Inhabiting Çatalhöyük: reports from the 1995-1999 seasons; Volume 5 - Changing materialities at Çatalhöyük: reports from the 1995-99 seasons; Volume 6 - Çatalhöyük perspectives: themes from the 1995-9 seasons. A Çatalhöyük biography appeared in January 2005. “The Goddess and the Bull - Çatalhöyük: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization” by Michael Balter was published by Simon and Schuster's Free Press (Fig 9). The story of Çatalhöyük is told in 17 chapters, plus an Introduction and Epilogue. The first three chapters cover the 1958 discovery of the site and James Mellaart's four seasons of excavation during the 1960s. The story then picks up with Ian Hodder's biography, the development of his archaeological thought and the birth of the "post-processual" movement in archaeology, and the circumstances under which he decided to dig at Çatalhöyük. The ensuing chapters then follow the dig's chronology as well as detail the findings of the specialist teams. Interwoven into these pages are the stories of a number of team members.
Figure 9 A Çatalhöyük biography. |
