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.
Changing Entanglements and Temporalities (Ian Hodder); Statistical Integration of Contextual Data (Sarah Cross May); Heavy-residue Analysis (Craig Cessford et al); Absolute Dating at Çatalhöyük (Craig Cessford et al); Pottery from the East Mound (Jonathan Last); Domesticating Clay: the Role of Clay Balls, Mini Balls and Geometric Objects in Daily Life at Çatalhöyük (Sonya Atalay); Organic-residue Analysis of Pottery Vessels and Clay Balls (Mark Copley et al); Some Remarks on Çatalhöyük Stamp Seals (Ali Umut Turkcan); The Figurines (Naomi Hamilton); A Preliminary Investigation of Mudbrick at Çatalhöyük (Burcu Tung); The Chipped Stone (Tristan Carter et al); From Chemistry to Consumption: Towards a History of Obsidian Use at Çatalhöyük through a Programme of Inter-Laboratory Trace-elemental Characterisation (Tristan Carter et al); Cooking, Crafts and Curation: Ground-stone Artefacts from Çatalhöyük (Adnan Baysal and Katherine I Wright); The Beads (Naomi Hamilton); Çatalhöyük Basketry (Willeke Wendrich); Çatalhöyük Worked Bone (Nerissa Russell); Ground-stone Raw Material from Çatalhöyük (Asuman G Turkmenoglu et al); Bead Material Identification (Brian Jackson).
