Last House on the Hill: BACH Area Reports from Çatalhöyük, Turkey (Cotsen Monumenta Archaeologica): BACH Area Reports from Catalhoyuk, Turkey: 27

Occupied from around 7500 BC to 5700 BC, the large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Anatolia is composed entirely of domestic buildings; no public buildings have been identified. First excavated in the early 1960s, the site was left untouched until 1993. During the summers of 1997 2003 a team from the University of California at Berkeley (the BACH team) excavated an area at the northern end of the East Mound of Çatalhöyük. The houses there date predominantly to the late Aceramic and early Ceramic Neolithic, around 7000 BC. Last House on the Hill is the final report of the BACH excavations. This volume comprises both interpretive chapters and empirical data from the excavations and their materials. The research of the BACH team focuses on the lives and life histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in documenting and sharing the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities. Cover Half Title Frontice Piece Title Copyright Table of Contents Table of Figures Acknowledgments Contributors Preface Chapter 1: Introductuon to the BACH Project Part 1: Strategies of Research, Analysis, and Interpretation Chapter 2: Research Methodology Chapter 3: Creating and Archiving the Media Database and Documentation of the Excavation Part 2: Retrieving and Understanding the Sequence of Depositional Events of the Buildings Chapter 4: Summary of Results of the Excavation in the BACH Area Chapter 5: Detailed Report of Excavation of Building 3 and Spaces 87, 88, and 89 Chapter 6: Building and Caring for the House at Catalhoyuk Chapter 7: Household Life Histories and Boundaries: Microstratigraphy and Micromorphology of Architectural Surfaces in Building 3 Part 3: Human-Environment Relations in the BACH Area Chapter 8: Mammals from the BACH Area Chapter 9: Bird Remains from the BACH Area Chapter 10: The Microfauna of the BACH Area Chapter 11: The Phytoliths of the BACH Area Chapter 12: The Life of Building 3 Through Plant Use: The Macrobotanical Evidence of Neolithic Dwelling from the BACH Excavations Chapter 13: Death and its Relationship to Life: Neolithic Burials from Building 3 and Space 87 Chapter 14: Post-Neolithic Use of Building 3, Space 88, and Space 89 Part 4: Changing Materialities in the BACH Area Chapter 15: Worked Bone from the BACH Area Worked Bone in Context Repair Conclusion Acknowledgements Chapter 16: Neolithic Pottery from the BACH Excavation Quantification Fabrics Forms Distributions Conclusions Chapter 17: Figures of the BACH Area Background The BACH Figurine Corpus Ongoing Work Acknowledgments Chapter 18: Analysis of Clay Ball Materials from the BACH Area General Notes on the Bach Area Clay Ball Material Comparison of Building 3 With Other Buildings Attributes of Clay Ball Materials from Building 3 Feature 758: The Mini-Ball Basin Other Notable Clay Ball Contexts in Building 3 Conclusion Chapter 19: The Flaked Stone Assemblage from the BACH Area The BACH Assemblage in General The Chipped Stone Indstries Represented in the BACH Area Assemblages Building 3 Assemblage by Phase Space 85 Space 87 Space 88 Space 89 Technology Distribution of Tool Types The Sourcing Study Revisited Conclusion Chapter 20: Ground Stone Tools and Technologies Associated with Buildings in the Bach Area Methods of Analysis Overview of the BACH Ground Stone Assemblage: Techno-Typology Contextual Analysis Conclusions Acknowledgments Chapter 21: Beads and the Body: Ornament Technologies of the Bach Area Buildings Issues and Methods in the Study of Ornaments Magic, Symbolism, and Value Production, Technology, Specialization: The Making of Ornaments Ornament Studies at Catalhoyuk Materials, Technology, and Typology of the BACH Beads Comparisons With Other Sites in Anatolia and the Near East Conclusions Acknowledgments Part 5: Taking the Analyses and Interpretations One Step Further: Alternatives (Nontraditional) Directions of BACH Research Chapter 23: Catalhoyuk Murals: A Snapshot of Conservation and Experimental Research Chapter 22: Building the Replica Neolithic House at Catalhoyuk The Aims of the Projects Bricks and Other Construction Materials Construction of House Walls The Roof House Interior Finishing Surfaces The Use of the House Architectural Art of Catalhoyuk: Typology and Interpretation Plaster and Pigment Technology Experimental Conservation Acknowledgments Chapter 24: An Archaeology of Vision: Seeing Present and Past in Catalhoyuk Studying Vision in Our Presence A Viewing Triangle of People, Places, and Things Introduction to an Archaeology of Vision Seeing On-Site: Participation in the Visual Present Covering the Unearthed- Shelters of All Shapes and Sizes The Study-Seeing in Situ Toward an Archaeology of Vision Interstitial: Envisioning a Viewer-Centered Archaeology Future Directions for Research Chapter 25: The Public Face of Archaeology at Catalhoyuk Strategies of Good Practice and Sustainability The Broader Context of Presenting Catalhoyuk to the Public Catalhoyuk as a Heritage Site Implications for the Public Presentation of Heritage Catalhoyuk as a Heritage Site Multiple Catagories of On-Site Publics Catalhoyuk and K-Gray Education Future Plans and Dreams Chapter 26: Sensing the Place of Catalhoyuk: The Rhythms of Daily Life Light and Shadow, Sound and Song, Taste and Smell, Texture and Movement Experiencing the Place of Catalhoyuk Now The Rhythm of Thursdays The Rhythm of Fridays Stepping Back: Considering the Sense and Senses of Place Stepping into the Imagined and Constructed Then Sharing the Senses of Place: The Digital Revolution Afterword: Creating the Digital Edition of Last House on the Hill References Index Back Cover Occupied from around 7500 BC to 5700 BC, the large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Anatolia is composed entirely of domestic buildings; no public buildings have been identified. First excavated in the early 1960s, the site was left untouched until 1993. During the summers of 1997-2003 a team from the University of California at Berkeley (the BACH team) excavated an area at the northern end of the East Mound of Çatalhöyük. The houses there date predominantly to the late Aceramic and early Ceramic Neolithic, around 7000 BC. Last House on the Hill is the final report of the BACH excavations. This volume comprises both interpretive chapters and empirical data from the excavations and their materials. The research of the BACH team focuses on the lives and life histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in documenting and sharing the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities. Last House on the Hill is mirrored by an online media- and data-rich digital version (www.codifi.info/projects/last-house-onthe-hill) that interlinks all the original data, media, analyses, and interpretation of the BACH project with the final synthetic contents presented in this monograph Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Occupied from around 7500 BC to 5700 BC, the large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk in Anatolia is composed entirely of domestic buildings; no public buildings have been identified. First excavated in the early 1960s, the site was left untouched until 1993. During the summers of 1997-2003 a team from the University of California at Berkeley (the BACH team) excavated an area at the northern end of the East Mound of Catalhoyuk. The houses there date predominantly to the late Aceramic and early Ceramic Neolithic, around 7000 BC. Last House on the Hill is the final report of the BACH excavations. This volume comprises both interpretive chapters and empirical data from the excavations and their materials. The research of the BACH team focuses on the lives and life histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in documenting and sharing the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities. "This volume is the final report on the excavations of Building 3, and Spaces 87, 88, and 89 at Çatalhöyük, Turkey that were carried out by a team from the University of California at Berkeley (BACH team) during the summers of 1997-2003. The BACH Area lies at the northern end of the East Mound of Çatalhöyük, whose archaeological remains date predominantly to the late Aceramic and early Ceramic Neolithic of Central Anatolia, ca. 7000 BC. As with previous reports on the Çatalhöyük Research Project, the BACH volume includes chapters of an interpretive nature in addition to reporting the empirical data from the excavations. The research of the BACH team in this volume focuses on the lives and life-histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in documenting and sharing the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities This is the final report of the 1997-2003 excavations at the Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk in Anatolia, focussing on the lives and life histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities.