Excavating Catalhoyuk
In 1993, after a 30-year hiatus, the Turkish government granted British archaeologist Ian Hodder a concession to excavate at Catalhoyuk—a project to which James Mellaart, the original excavator of the site, gave his blessings.
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Footnotes
For example, all of the skeletons excavated at the Neolithic site of Ain Ghazal, in Jordan, were missing heads. One interpretation is that the head symbolized authority and was removed so that authority would remain with the living, rather than with the dead. See Gary O. Rollefson, “Invoking the Spirit: Prehistoric Religion at Ain Ghazal,” Archaeology Odyssey, Premiere Issue, 1998.