A Design for Life
Interpreting the Art of Çatalhöyük
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2391371 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Last (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 355-378 |
| Publication date | 1998-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/135918359800300305 |
| OpenAlex | W4252308121 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 19 |
The 'art' discovered by James Mellaart at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey has generated enormous interest, scholarly and popular, over the last 30 years. This paper presents a critique of previous approaches to what is one of the best-known bodies of iconographic evidence in the archaeo logical literature, arguing that these interpretations fail to address the intimate, domestic context of the murals and mouldings. Instead they should be understood in terms of the routinized practices occurring within the same architectural spaces, which reflect their past interpretations and embodied experience. This mode of archaeological interpretation is developed in relation to the methodology adopted in new excavations at Çatalhöyük during 1995-7
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Relation (database · Sociology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Computer Science · Conservation Techniques and Studies · History · Philosophy
A Tale of Two Platforms
Material Register, Surface, and Form at Çatalhöyük
Marked, absent, habitual
Bodies in buildings
Heady Business
Structure, diversity and context in neolithic ritual practice
Colour Symbolism in the Prehistoric Architecture of Central Anatolia and Raman Spectroscopic Investigation of Red Ochre in Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük
Social dimensions in the architecture of Neolithic Çatalhöyük
A bird's eye view – of a leopard's spots The Çatalhöyük ‘map’ and the development of cartographic representation in prehistory
Burials in context
Defusing Dualism
Technical strategies and technical change at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Pigment Use at Neolithic Çatalhöyük
Interpreting the Bucrania of Çatalhöyük
Daily Practice and Social Memory at Çatalhöyük
Constructing a Cosmos
Interpreting the Unique
Death, fire and abandonment
Purity and Danger
‘Marvels of Everyday Vision’
Jeremy Coote and Anthony Shelton, Introduction
Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of culture
Space, text, and gender
Time, Culture and Identity
The Logic of Practice
Excavations at Çatal Hüyük, 1963
Excavations at Çatal Hüyük, 1962
Excavations at Can Hasan
Excavations at Çatal Hüyük
A Ceremonial Ox of India
Goddesses, Gimbutas and New Age archaeology
Always momentary, fluid and flexible
Interpretive Archaeology and Its Role
Uneasy Relationships
From the Milk River
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |