Çatalhöyük: The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Turkey's Ancient 'Town'
Author:   Ian Hodder
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
ISBN:  

9780500289600


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 August 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Çatalhöyük: The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Turkey's Ancient 'Town'


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This brilliantly argued, first-hand account of the author's major discoveries at the renowned archaeological site Çatalhöyük in Turkey, described by Professor Colin Renfrew as 'one of the most ambitious excavation projects currently in progress', is now available in paperback. A tour de force of archaeological writing, it offers many insights into past lives and momentous events, and is superbly illustrated with images of the art, the artifacts and the excavations at this world-famous dig. It will be a must-read for archaeologists and historians everywhere.

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Author:   Ian Hodder
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.840kg
ISBN:  

9780500289600


ISBN 10:   0500289603
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 August 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

Table of Contents

1. A Journey Back Through Time, and Some Fellow Travellers 2. The Leopard’s Puzzle 3. A Mysterious Attraction 4. The ‘Town’ 5. The House 6. The Invention of ‘History’ 7. Revelation, Exchange and Production 8. Materiality, ‘Art’ and Agency 9. Women and Men, the Old and the Young 10. Selfhood and Individuality 11. Changing Material Entanglements, and the ‘Origins of Agriculture’ Epilogue: ‘We have found a leopard bone’

Reviews

...a richly absorbing examination of an intensely alien world. Any new book by Hodder is cause for great anticipation in archaeological circles . . . both specialists and amateurs will find his volume fascinating. . . . Essential.


...a richly absorbing examination of an intensely alien world.


Any new book by Hodder is cause for great anticipation in archaeological circles . . . both specialists and amateurs will find his volume fascinating. . . . Essential.


Author Information

Ian Hodder is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University and one of the world's foremost archaeologists and archaeological thinkers. Among his other books are Symbols in Action, Reading the Past, The Domestication of Europe, Interpreting Archaeology and Archaeological Theory Today.

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