Changing Materialities at Çatalhöyuk (Hardback)
Reports from the 1995-99 Seasons
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Pages: 506
ISBN: 9781902937281
Published: 18th January 2006
Casemate UK Academic
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Volume 5 deals with aspects of the material culture excavated in the 1995-99 period. In particular it discusses the changing materiality of life at the site over its 1100 years of occupation. It includes a discussion of ceramics and other fired clay material, chipped stone, groundstone, worked bone and basketry. As well as looking at typological and comparative issues in relation to these materials, the chapters explore themes such as the specialisation and scale of production, the engagement in systems of exchange, and consumption, use and deposition. A central question concerns change through time, and the degree and speed of this change. The occupants of the site increasingly get caught up in relations with material objects that start to act back upon them.