This volume, number six in the Çatalhöyuek Research Project series, draws on material from Volumes 3 to 5 to deal with broad themes. Data from architecture and excavation contexts are linked into broader discussion of topics such as seasonality, art and social memory. Rather than assuming that the work of the project is finished once the basic excavation and laboratory results have been presented in Volumes 3 to 5, it has been thought important to present more synthetic accounts that result from the high degree of integration and collaboration which the project has strived for at all stages. In this synthetic volume we most clearly describe the stories we have been telling ourselves during the data recovery/interpretation process. This volume thus provides a contextualisation of the work carried out in Volumes 3 to 5; it records the framework of thought within which the data were collected and studied, but it is also the result of the interpretation that occurred in the interaction with data.
Introduction (Ian Hodder); The Socio-ecology of Çatalhöyük (David Shankland); Entanglements/Encounters/Engagements with Prehistory: Çatalhöyük and its Publics (Ayfer Bartu Candan); The Nature of Çatalhöyük, People and their Changing Environments on the Konya Plain (Arlene Rosen and Neil Roberts); The History of Settlement and Social Landscapes in the Early Holocene in the Çatalhöyük Area (Douglas Baird); Group Identity and the Politics of Dwelling at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Eleni Asouti); Seasonality (Andrew Fairbairn et al); Foodways at Çatalhöyük (Sonya Atalay and Christine Hastorf); Life-cycle and Life-course of Buildings (Wendy Matthews; The Architecture of Çatalhöyük: Continuity, Household and Settlement (Marion Cutting); Fire, Burning and Pyrotechnology at Çatalhöyük (Craig Cessford and Julie Near); Memory (Ian Hodder); Art (Jonathan Last); Animal Representations and Animal Remains at Çatalhöyük (Nerissa Russell and Stephanie Meece).
