Çatalhöyük in the context of the Middle Eastern Neolithic

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2007, Pages 105-120

  Hodder, Ian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestication; History; Memory; Sedentism; Symbolism

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DOMESTICATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; NEOLITHIC; SOCIAL HISTORY; SYMBOLISM;

ANATOLIA; ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; TURKEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 36048960213     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.36.081406.094308     Document Type: Review

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