Excavations at Çatal Hüyük, 1962: Second Preliminary Report

1963 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 43-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mellaart
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Australian Institute ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

The excavations at Çatal Hüyük, the neolithic city mound in the Konya Plain, which were begun in 1961 were continued during the summer of 1962. The second season of excavation began on 7th June and lasted until 14th August, sixty working days, with a labour force which never exceeded thirty-five men, mostly trained under our foreman, Veli Karaaslan, at Beycesultan and Hacılar. Once again our trusted ustas included Rifat Çelimli, Mustafa Duman and Bekir Kalayci. Survey equipment and transport for the expedition were generously provided by Turkse Shell, Ankara.The 1962 season was financed by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York, a bequest from the late Mr. Francis Neilson, the Australian Institute of Archaeology and its President, Mr. W. J. Beasley, The British Academy, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. In addition the Director had a personal fellowship from the Bollingen Foundation, New York.

Excavations at Çatal Hüyük, 1963: Third Preliminary Report

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 39-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mellaart
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum ◽  
The Third ◽  
Australian Institute ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

The third season of excavations at Çatal Hüyük lasted from 10th June until 30th August, 1963, seventy working days with an average of thirty-five men, some local but most from the Beycesultan area, under our foreman, Veli Karaaslan, and our trusted ustas, Rifat Çelimli, Mustafa Duman, and Bekir Kalayci.The 1963 season received financial support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York, the Bollingen Foundation, New York, the Munroe Fund of the University of Edinburgh, The British Academy, the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, the Australian Institute of Archaeology, the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London, an anonymous donation, and Unilever, Istanbul, and transport and survey equipment from BP Aegean, Ltd., Istanbul.

Excavations at Çatal Hüyük, 1965, Fourth Preliminary Report

1966 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 165-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mellaart
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum ◽  
Australian Institute ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
British Institute

A fourth season of excavation at Çatal Hüyük took place between 18th July and 25th September 1965 under the auspices of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara with Professor O. R. Gurney as director administratively responsible to the Turkish Authorities. The excavation staff were Mr. and Mrs. James Mellaart, Miss Pamela Pratt and Miss Priscilla Berridge as conservators, Miss Raymonde Enderlé Ludovici (artist), Mr. and Mrs. N. Alcock (surveyor), Mr. Ian Todd, Mlle Anne Timonier and Mr. J. Jurriaanse as field assistants. Bayan Nemika Altan and Bay Mehmet Turgut, both from the Ankara Archaeological Museum, were our official Turkish Representatives.The excavation was sponsored by the British Academy, the Universities of Edinburgh and London, The Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Bollingen Foundation, both in New York, the Australian Institute of Archaeology, the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara and the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. BP Aegean Ltd. in Istanbul once again supported the expedition with survey equipment and transport.

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PEDIATRICS ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-140
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Child Life ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
The University

Child Health and Development: A Symposium by Special Contributors; Edited by R. W. B. Ellis, O.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P. Price $4.00, 372 pages, 49 illustrations. J. & A. Churchill Ltd. London,American Publisher Grune & Stratton, New York 16, 1947. Dr. Ellis is Professor of Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh. His book reflects this point of view and not that of our ordinary professor of pediatrics. It deals specifically with the development

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