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Anatolia

Canhasan Sites 2: Canhasan 1: The Pottery
by David French
The excavations at Canhasan Höyök I in the Konya plain of central Turkey revealed a series of settlements running through the Chalcolithic period (c.5500-3000 BC). The pottery from the site, much of it of types previously unknown or not found elsewhere in stratified contexts, is of fundamental importance for an understanding of this period in Anatolia. In this volume, Dr French, the excavator of Canhasan and for many years director of ...
Hardback. Price US$90.00

Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks and their Neighbours
edited by Billie Jean Collins, Mary R Bachvarova and Ian C Rutherford
The papers in this collection are the product of the conference "Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors in Ancient Anatolia: An International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction," hosted by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. They cover an impressive range of issues relating to the complex cultural interactions that took place on Anatolian soil over the course of two millennia, in the process highlighting the difficulties inherent in ...
Paperback. Price US$70.00

Byzanz - Konstantinopel - Istanbul
by Frank Schweizer and Stephan Blum
Istanbul, European Capital of Culture 2010, has been the "gateway to the East" for the West as well as the "bridge to the West" for the East for more than two and a half millennia. Time and again, the "city with the three names" - Byzantium, later Constantinople, and today Istanbul - has been the place of victories, defeats, and destruction. Every time, though, it grew back to exceed its former size. The metropolis at the Golden Horn has not lost ...
Hardback. Price US$45.00

Towards Reflexive Method in Archaeology: the example of Catalhöyük
edited by Ian Hodder and Team Members
In the early 1990s the University of Cambridge reopened excavations at the Neolithic site of Catalhöyük in central Turkey, abandoned since the 1960s. In this volume, Ian Hodder explains his vision of archaeological excavation, where careful examination of context and an awareness of human bias allows researchers exciting new insights into prehistoric cognition. The aim of the volume is to discuss some of the reflexive or postprocessual ...
Hardback. Price US$70.00

Excavating Çatalhöyük: South, North and KOPAL area reports from the 1995-99 seasons
edited by Ian Hodder
This volume outlines the general aims and history of the project and covers the period of work on three areas of Çatalhöyük from 1995-99. Excavation, recording and sampling methodologies are discussed as well as dating, 'levels', and the relationship between material found in/on floors and activities that took place there. The major implications and results of the excavations are then placed in their regional context. In addition, ...
Hardback. Price US$138.00

The Amuq Valley Regional Projects, Volume 1: Surveys in the Plain of Antioch and Orontes Delta, Turkey, 1995-2002
by K Aslihan Yener
The results of the Amuq Valley Regional Projects (AVRP) presented in this volume are the outcome of eight seasons of intensive fieldwork (1995-2002) representing the first phase of a long-range, broadly-based archaeological investigation in the Hatay region of southern Turkey. From its inception the research was conceived as a series of coordinated field projects. The detailed and expansive scope of the regional project originated from a number ...
Hardback. Price US$100.00

Anatolian Iron Ages 5
edited by A Çilingiroglu and G Darbyshire
The Fifth Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium, held at Van in 2001, brought together specialists from Turkey, Europe and America to focus on the archaeology of Anatolia in the complex period between the collapse of the Hittite empire and the Persian conquest. The papers gathered in this volume cover the area from Urartu in the east to Phrygia in the west, and range from the discussion of broad problems of chronology and cultural interaction to the ...
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Changing Materialities at Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 1995-99 Seasons
edited by Ian Hodder
Volume 5 deals with other 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 ...
Hardback. Price US$120.00

Canhasan Sites I : Canhasan 1: Stratigraphy and Structures
by David French
The mound known as Canhasan Hüyük 1, in the Konya Plain of south-central Turkey, has revealed a series of settlements running through the Chalcolithic period (c5500-3000 BC). This first volume detailing work carried out between 1961 and 1967, ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$80.00, Our Price US$19.98

Building a New Rome: The Roman Colony of Pisidian Antioch (25 BC - 700 AD)
edited by Elaine K. Gazda and Diana Y. Ng, in collaboration with Unal Demirer
The essays in this volume bring to bear the latest scholarly and technological trends in archaeological research to shed new light on the site of Pisidian Antioch in west-central Turkey. Drawing on 3-D virtual reality technology as well as archival material from a 1924 University of Michigan expedition to the site, the authors propose new reconstructions of the city's major excavated monuments. They also evaluate these monuments in relation to ...