![]() ![]() Hodder presents the carefully-gathered fruit of decades of research, ranging from careful sifting through dust and soil for tiny fragments to climatological surveys to surveys of midden heaps to microscopic examination of ten-thousand-year-old pollen samples. ![]() ![]() I could not conceive of a better guide to take us through the site. As the director of excavation at one of the most important archaeological sites in the world, Hodder is in a unique position to give an account of the ancient Anatolian settlement Çatalhöyük - and what an account it is! This is clearly the definitive book on the site, and is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in early Anatolia, or the development of agriculture and urbanization. A startling revolution has quietly occurred in our understanding of the origins of civilization, and Ian Hodder has been at ground zero. ![]()
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