Changing Materialities at Çatalhöyuk: Reports from the 1995-99 Seasons [With CDROM] (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781902937281)

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.

Author: Ian Hodder
ISBN-10: 1902937287
ISBN-13: 9781902937281
Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Researc
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2006
Pages: 506
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.88lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.66w x 1.07d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 264