As I’d previously mentioned, I was digging a lovely burned building at Çatalhöyük before I left. Happily, several interesting discoveries were made in that short time. We uncovered a seated stone figurine with a beard that was painted (sadly, I don’t have any photos, but I’m sure it will make the official Çatalhöyük press release), [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘turkey’
July 18, 2008
Building 49, Space 100 & 335, f. 4000
(my site diary entry from a few days ago)
This year I am working in Building 49, Space 100, probably for the duration of the excavation. Building 49 is a small house, with plaster and the traditional features that characterize Catalhoyuk. I started excavating platform f. 1651, located in the northwest corner of the building, which [...]
October 3, 2007
When the Bosphorus Dries Up
“Amid the doomsday chaos, among toppled wrecks of old City Line ferries, will stretch vast fields of bottle caps and seaweed. Adorning the mossy masts of American transatlantic lines that ran aground when the last of the water receded overnight, we shall find skeletons of Celts and Ligurians, their mouths gaping open in deference [...]
