Substantive Technologies at Catalhoyuk
Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons: Catalhoyuk Research Project Volume 9
edited by Ian Hodder
Hardback (Published)
(November 2013)
ISBN: 9781898249313
8.46 x 10.94 inches
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The ways in which humans became increasingly engaged in their material environment, such that “things” came to play an active force in their lives, is the subject of this volume in the Catalhoyuk series. The alluvial clays surrounding the site were extremely important in this dynamic involvement. In the absence of local stone, humans extracted and manipulated clay for a wide range of purposes, including the manufacture of bricks, ovens, pots, and figurines. This heavy use of clays led to changes in the local environment that influenced human activity, as indicated in the first section of the volume. In the second section other examples of material technologies are considered, all of which in various ways engaged humans in specific dependencies and relationships. For example, large-scale studies of obsidian trade have drawn a complex picture of changing interactions among humans over time. The volume concludes with an integrated account of the uses of materials at Catalhoyuk based on the analysis of heavy residue samples from all contexts at the site.
- Edited by Ian Hodder
Other Titles in this Series
The Transition to Mycenaean
A stratified Middle Helladic II to Late Helladic IIA pottery sequence from Ayios Stephanos in Lakonia
Volume 4
Integrating Catalhoyuk
Themes from the 2000-2008 Seasons: Catalhoyuk Research Project Volume 10
Volume 32
Early Athens
Settlements and Cemeteries in the Submycenaean, Geometric and Archaic Periods
Volume 42
Prehistoric Sitagroi
Excavations in Northeast Greece, 1968-1970. Volume 2: The Final Report.
Volume 20
Landscape History of Hadramawt
The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project 1998-2008
Volume 43
The Desert Fayum Reinvestigated
The Early to Mid-Holocene Landscape Archaeology of the Fayum North Shore, Egypt
Volume 39
Ancient Methone, 2003-2013
Excavations by Matthaios Bessios, Athena Athanassiadou, and Konstantinos Noulas
Volume 49
Humans and Landscapes of Catalhoyuk
Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons: Catalhoyuk Research Project Volume 8
Volume 30
Animals, Ancestors, and Ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria
An Elite Mortuary Complex from Umm el-Marra
Volume 50
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