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Substantive Technologies at Çatalhöyük:
Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons, Volume 9
Edited by Ian Hodder
ISBN: 978-1-898249-31-3 (hardback)
Price: $89.00
Details: 538 pp, 8 ½ x 11, 250 images, 50 tables, CD-rom with
additional 100 figures and 25 tables

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 Çatalhöyük 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, for the manufacture
of bricks, ovens, pots, and figurines. This heavy use of clay 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
engaged humans in various ways in specific dependencies and
relationships. For example, large-scale studies of the 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 Çatalhöyük based on the analysis of heavy-residue
samples from all contexts at the site.

Table of Contents:
Introduction

Chapter 1 - Becoming Entangled in Things by Ian Hodder
Chapter 2 - An Integrated Perspective on the Uses of Materials at
Çatalhöyük Based on the Analysis of Heavy Residues by Slobodan
Mitrović & Milena Vasić

A Settlement of Clay

Chapter 3 - Sourcing Çatalhöyük’s Clays by Chris Doherty
Chapter 4 - Building with Mud: An Analysis of Architectural Materials
at Çatalhöyükby Burcu Tung
Chapter 5 - An Archaeology of Mudbrick Houses from Çatalhöyük by Serena Love
Chapter 6 - New Discoveries in House Construction at Çatalhöyük by
Mirjana Stevanović
Chapter 7 - Biographies of Architectural Materials and Buildings:
Integrating High–resolution Micro–analysis and Geochemistry by Wendy
Matthews, Matthew J. Almond, Emma Anderson, Joanne Wiles, Helen
Williams & James Rowe
Chapter 8 - Structural Fires at Çatalhöyük by Karl Harrison, Victoria
Martin & Brooke Webster
Chapter 9 - The Neolithic Pottery of Çatalhöyük: Recent Studies by
Nurcan Yalman, Duygu Tarkan & Hilal Gültekin
Chapter 10 - Pottery Production at Çatalhöyük: A Petrographic
Perspective by Christopher Doherty & Duygu Tarkan
Chapter 11 - Absorbed Lipid Residues in the Çatalhöyük Pottery by
Sharmini Pitter, Nurcan Yalman & Richard Evershed
Chapter 12 - Figurine Worlds at Çatalhöyük by Carolyn Nakamura & Lynn Meskell
Chapter 13 - Çatalhöyük Stamp Seals from 2000 to 2008 by Ali Umut Türkcan
Chapter 14 - Clay Balls, Mini Balls and Geometric Objects by Sonya Atalay
Chapter 15 - Geometric Clay Objects by Lucy Bennison–Chapman

Demanding Technologies

Chapter 16 - Çatalhöyük Worked Bone: South and 4040 Areas by Nerissa
Russell & Janet L. Griffitts
Chapter 17 - The Metallic Finds from Çatalhöyük: A Review and
Preliminary New Workby Thomas Birch, Thilo Rehren & Ernst Pernicka
Chapter 18 - Çatalhöyük Wall Paintings: Materials, Technologies and
Artists by Duygu Çamurcuoğlu
Chapter 19 - A Technological Approach to the Study of Personal
Ornamentation and Social Expression at Çatalhöyük by Roseleen Bains,
Milena Vasić, Daniella E. Bar–Yosef Mayer, Nerissa Russell, Katherine
I. Wright & Chris Doherty
Chapter 20 - The Ground Stone Technologies of Çatalhöyük by Katherine
I. Wright (with contributions by Christina Tsoraki–Chan & Ruth
Siddall)
Chapter 21 - The Chipped Stone by Tristan Carter & Marina Milić


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