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The BIAA publishes scholarly monographs relating to the archaeology and history of Türkiye, with a particular emphasis on publishing the results of Institute-funded research. BIAA monographs are distributed by Casemate. Hardbacks can be ordered directly from Casemateuk.com.

The BIAA on occasion publishes online supplementary material to books in its monograph series. All supplementary material is open access, and is available here.

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From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories: Papers on Iron Age Anatolia in Honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers (BIAA Monograph 57) Edited by Catherine M. Draycott, Scott Branting, Joseph W. Lehner and Yasemin Özarslan

From Midas to Cyrus and Other Stories brings together prominent scholars to collaboratively celebrate two important figures and to address the murky period between ca 700 BC, when the semi-legendary King Midas of Phrygia died, and ca 550 BC, when the Persian King Cyrus the Great brought Anatolia into the new Achaemenid Persian Empire. This is a period dominated by narratives of the rise of the Mermnad Lydian Kingdom; the demise of the Urartian Kingdom and of ‘Neo-Hittite’-type culture and polities; and the invasion of Cimmerians, Scythians and Medes.

The discoveries of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers at the massive walled city on Kerkenes Dağı have changed the cultural history and texture of Anatolia during this period, opening insights into the spread of Phrygian culture and language and inviting further discussion of how the period is framed. From Midas to Cyrus honours their accomplishments by addressing the events of that period from various angles and in various regions, urging further synthesis of the dynamics affecting the Mediterranean, Near East and Anatolia toward the production of revised, more nuanced narratives.

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Çatalhöyük Excavations: The 2009–2017 Seasons (British Institute at Ankara Monograph 56; Çatalhöyük Research Project Series Volume 12) Edited by Ian Hodder

This volume presents the results of the excavations that took place at Çatalhöyük from 2009 to 2017, when the main aim was to understand the social geography of the settlement, its layout and social organisation. Excavation, recording and sampling methodologies are discussed, as well as dating, ‘levels’, and the grouping of buildings into social sectors. The excavations in different areas of the East Mound at Çatalhöyük are described. The description of excavated units, features and buildings incorporates results from the analyses of animal bone, chipped stone, groundstone, shell, ceramics, phytoliths and micromorphology. The integration of such data within their context allows detailed accounts of the lives of the inhabitants of Çatalhöyük, their relationships and activities. The integration of different types of data in the excavation account mimics the process of collaborative interpretation that took place during the excavation and post-excavation process.

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Communities at Work: The Making of Çatalhöyük (British Institute at Ankara Monograph 55; Çatalhöyük Research Project Series Volume 15) Edited by Ian Hodder & Christina Tsoraki

This volume scrutinises Çatalhöyük as the by-product of the activities of a community residing there 9,000 years ago, but also as the outcome of the interactions of a community of researchers. It begins with an overview of community engagement practices and of the ways different audiences have interacted with the site. It considers the differences in approach of the Mellaart and recent excavations and reflects on different methodological perspectives. It synthesises the array of environmental resources that would have been used at different times of the year. The ways in which the community at Çatalhöyük was held together, but also how community dynamics may have changed over time, are considered. Modelling changes in practices shows that the effects of new introductions played out over many phases of occupation. The evidence for violence at the site is re-evaluated, and the use of pigments on house surfaces, objects and human bodies and the social practices surrounding these practices are considered. The diversity of themes discussed captures the multifaceted nature of Çatalhöyük.

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The Matter of Çatalhöyük

The Matter of Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 2009–2017 Seasons (British Institute at Ankara Monograph 54; Çatalhöyük Research Project Series Volume 14) Edited by Ian Hodder

The chapters in this volume describe the material artefacts recovered from the site, including a range of clay-based objects (ceramics, clay balls, tokens, figurines) as well as those made of stone, shell and textile. There is discussion of the entanglements between humans and their material worlds at various scales, from the overall use of the landscape around the site, to the arrangement of buildings on the site, and to the social lives of the inhabitants of the mounds. These entanglements involved human relations with moving matter. Matter itself is unstable and always changing, drawing humans into its care and management. We envisage matter as a series of flows or lines of energy that interact, animate or constrain each other, leading to change. This perspective, discussed in a synthetic introductory chapter, allows new approaches to themes such as local and regional exchange, community building, cooking, the organisation of production and inequality.

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Peopling the Landscape of Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 2009–2017 Seasons (British Institute at Ankara Monograph 53; Çatalhöyük Research Project Series Volume 13) Edited by Ian Hodder

This volume reports on the ways in which humans engaged in their material and biotic environments, using a wide range of archaeological evidence. The volume also summarises work on the skeletal remains recovered from the site, as well as analytical research on isotopes and aDNA. There is discussion of how our understanding of the Neolithic landscape and climate have changed. There is important new data on the ways the landscape was used differently by different social groups in the settlement. Social structure seems much more complex and cross-cutting than previously thought, and practices of delayed burial have been discovered. A strong emphasis throughout the volume is on variability and on transformation through time; the ways that the landscape was ‘peopled’ changed quite dramatically as a result of both internal developments and external large-scale processes.

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List of BIAA Monographs

  • The Archaeobotany of Aşvan: Environment and Cultivation in Eastern Anatolia from the Chalcolithic to the Medieval Period, Mark Nesbitt, Jennifer Bates, Gordon Hillman and Stephen Mitchell (2017)
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  • Bordered Places | Bounded Times: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Turkey, edited by Emma L. Baysal and Leonidas Karakatsanis (2017)
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  • Substantive Technologies at Çatalhöyük. Reports from the 20002008 Seasons, edited by Ian Hodder (2013)
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  • Humans and Landscapes of Çatalhöyük. Reports from the 20002008 Seasons, edited by Ian Hodder (2013)
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  • At Empires’ Edge. Project Paphlagonia: Regional Survey in North-Central Turkey, edited by Roger Matthews and Claudia Glatz (2009)
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  • Excavating Çatalhöyük: South, North and KOPAL Area Reports from the 1995–99 Seasons, edited by Ian Hodder (2006)
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  • The Madra River Delta: Regional Studies on the Aegean Coast of Turkey 1: Environment, Society and Community from Prehistory to the Present, edited by K. Lambrianides and N. Spencer (2007)
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  • Excavations at Kilise Tepe 1994–98: From Bronze Age to Byzantine in Western Cilicia, edited by Nicholas Postgate and David Thomas (2007)
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  • The Ottoman House. Papers of the Amasya Symposium 24–27 September 1996, edited by S. Ireland and W. Bechhoefer (1998)
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  • An Epigraphical Survey in the Kibyra-Olbasa Region Conducted by A.S. Hall (Regional Epigraphic Catalogues of Asia Minor 3), N.P. Milner (1998)
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  • Studies in the History and Topography of Lycia and Pisidia: in Memoriam A.S. Hall, edited by David French (1994)
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  • The Aşvan Sites 3: Keban Rescue Excavations, Eastern Anatolia (The Early Bronze Age), A.G. Sagona (1994)
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  • Anatolian Iron Ages 3: The Proceedings of the Third Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium held at Van, 6-12 August 1990, edited by A. Çilingiroğlu and David French (1994)
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  • Anatolian Iron Ages 2: The Proceedings of the Second Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium held at Izmir, 4-8 May 1987, edited by A. Çilingiroğlu and David French (1991)
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  • The Eastern Frontier of the Roman Empire. Proceedings of a Colloquium held at Ankara in September 1988, edited by David French and C.S. Lightfoot (1989)
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  • The Inscriptions of North Galatia. The Ankara District (Regional Epigraphic Catalogues of Asia Minor 2), Stephen Mitchell (1982)
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  • Pre-Classical Pottery of Eastern Anatolia: Based on a Survey by Charles Burney of Sites along the Euphrates and around Lake Van, H.F. Russell (1980)
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  • Aşvan Kale: Keban Rescue Excavations, Eastern Anatolia. 1 The Hellenistic, Roman and Islamic Sites, Stephen Mitchell (1980)
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BIAA Special Publication

  • Ancient Anatolia: Fifty Years’ Work by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, edited by Roger Matthews (1998)
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BIAA Occasional Publications

  • Beycesultan 3.2. Late Bronze Age and Phrygian Pottery and Middle and Late Bronze Age Small Objects, James Mellaart and Ann Murray (1995)
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