Reconsidering the Çatalhöyük community: From households to settlement systems

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-182

  Düring, Bleda S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

atalh y k; Households; Local community; Near East; Neighbourhoods; Neolithic

Indexed keywords

HUMAN SETTLEMENT; NEIGHBORHOOD; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

ANATOLIA; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 38949153073     PISSN: 09527648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/jmea.2007.v20i2.155     Document Type: Article

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