- The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia 10,000–323 B.C.E.
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia
- Introduction: The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia
- The Land and Peoples of Anatolia through Ancient Eyes
- A History of the Preclassical Archaeology of Anatolia
- Anatolian Chronology and Terminology
- The Neolithic on the Plateau
- The Neolithic in Southeastern Anatolia
- The Chalcolithic on the Plateau
- The Chalcolithic of Southeast Anatolia
- The Chalcolithic of Eastern Anatolia
- The Early Bronze Age on the Plateau
- The Early Bronze Age in Southeastern Anatolia
- Eastern Anatolia in the Early Bronze Age
- The <i>Kārum</i> Period on the Plateau
- Southeastern and Eastern Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age
- The Late Bronze Age in the West and the Aegean
- The Plateau: The Hittites
- Southern and Southeastern Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age
- The Iron Age on the Central Anatolian Plateau
- The Iron Age of Southeastern Anatolia
- The Iron Age in Eastern Anatolia
- The Greeks in Western Anatolia
- The Hittite Language: Recovery and Grammatical Sketch
- Luwian and the Luwians
- Urartian and the Urartians
- Phrygian and the Phrygians
- Hittite Anatolia: A Political History
- Anatolia: The First Millennium B.C.E. in Historical Context
- Monuments and Memory: Architecture and Visual Culture in Ancient Anatolian History
- Eastern Thrace: the Contact Zone Between Anatolia and the Balkans
- Anatolia and the Transcaucasus Themes and Variations ca. 6400–1500 B.C.E.
- Indo-Europeans
- Troy in Regional and International Context
- Assyrians and Urartians
- The Greeks in Anatolia: From the Migrations to Alexander the Great
- A Brief Overview of the Halaf Tradition
- Millennia in the Middle? Reconsidering the Chalcolithic of Asia Minor
- Interaction of Uruk and Northern Late Chalcolithic Societies in Anatolia
- Ancient Landscapes in Southeastern Anatolia
- Metals and Metallurgy
- The Hittite State and Empire from Archaeological Evidence
- The Hittite Empire from Textual Evidence
- Part V Key Sites
- Göbekli Tepe: A Neolithic Site in Southeastern Anatolia
- Çatalhöyük: A Prehistoric Settlement on the Konya Plain
- Ilipinar: A Neolithic Settlement in the Eastern Marmara Region
- Arslantepe-Malatya: A Prehistoric and Early Historic Center in Eastern Anatolia
- Titriş Höyük: The Nature and Context of Third Millennium B.C.E. Urbanism in the Upper Euphrates Basin
- Kültepe-Kaneš: A Second Millennium B.C.E. Trading Center on the Central Plateau
- Key Sites Of The Hittite Empire
- Ayanis: An Iron age Site in the East
- Gordion: The Changing Political and Economic Roles of a First Millennium B.C.E. City
- Kaman-kalehöyük Excavations in Central Anatolia
- Sardis: A First Millennium B.C.E. Capital in Western Anatolia
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article discusses findings from excavations at Çatalhöyük. There is limited evidence for specialized and differentiated economic, political, and social functions at Çatalhöyük. Rather, the effect of a “town” (a large agglomeration of people living packed against each other) is produced by the repetition of social behavior within houses. Daily acts were heavily routinized and reconfirmed the social order. People were brought up within daily routines through which they learned the roles and rules of society. In addition, these rules and conventions were set within an elaborate symbolic system that centered around wild animals and the ancestors buried beneath the floors.
Keywords: excavations, archaeological sites, town, social behavior, social order, daily routines
Ian Hodder is Dunlevie Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia 10,000–323 B.C.E.
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia
- Introduction: The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia
- The Land and Peoples of Anatolia through Ancient Eyes
- A History of the Preclassical Archaeology of Anatolia
- Anatolian Chronology and Terminology
- The Neolithic on the Plateau
- The Neolithic in Southeastern Anatolia
- The Chalcolithic on the Plateau
- The Chalcolithic of Southeast Anatolia
- The Chalcolithic of Eastern Anatolia
- The Early Bronze Age on the Plateau
- The Early Bronze Age in Southeastern Anatolia
- Eastern Anatolia in the Early Bronze Age
- The <i>Kārum</i> Period on the Plateau
- Southeastern and Eastern Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age
- The Late Bronze Age in the West and the Aegean
- The Plateau: The Hittites
- Southern and Southeastern Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age
- The Iron Age on the Central Anatolian Plateau
- The Iron Age of Southeastern Anatolia
- The Iron Age in Eastern Anatolia
- The Greeks in Western Anatolia
- The Hittite Language: Recovery and Grammatical Sketch
- Luwian and the Luwians
- Urartian and the Urartians
- Phrygian and the Phrygians
- Hittite Anatolia: A Political History
- Anatolia: The First Millennium B.C.E. in Historical Context
- Monuments and Memory: Architecture and Visual Culture in Ancient Anatolian History
- Eastern Thrace: the Contact Zone Between Anatolia and the Balkans
- Anatolia and the Transcaucasus Themes and Variations ca. 6400–1500 B.C.E.
- Indo-Europeans
- Troy in Regional and International Context
- Assyrians and Urartians
- The Greeks in Anatolia: From the Migrations to Alexander the Great
- A Brief Overview of the Halaf Tradition
- Millennia in the Middle? Reconsidering the Chalcolithic of Asia Minor
- Interaction of Uruk and Northern Late Chalcolithic Societies in Anatolia
- Ancient Landscapes in Southeastern Anatolia
- Metals and Metallurgy
- The Hittite State and Empire from Archaeological Evidence
- The Hittite Empire from Textual Evidence
- Part V Key Sites
- Göbekli Tepe: A Neolithic Site in Southeastern Anatolia
- Çatalhöyük: A Prehistoric Settlement on the Konya Plain
- Ilipinar: A Neolithic Settlement in the Eastern Marmara Region
- Arslantepe-Malatya: A Prehistoric and Early Historic Center in Eastern Anatolia
- Titriş Höyük: The Nature and Context of Third Millennium B.C.E. Urbanism in the Upper Euphrates Basin
- Kültepe-Kaneš: A Second Millennium B.C.E. Trading Center on the Central Plateau
- Key Sites Of The Hittite Empire
- Ayanis: An Iron age Site in the East
- Gordion: The Changing Political and Economic Roles of a First Millennium B.C.E. City
- Kaman-kalehöyük Excavations in Central Anatolia
- Sardis: A First Millennium B.C.E. Capital in Western Anatolia
- Index