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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813492303321

Autore

Dural Sadrettin <1953-, >

Titolo

Protecting Catalhoyuk : memoir of an archaeological site guard / / Sadrettin Dural ; with contributions by Ian Hodder ; translated by Duygu Camurcuoglu Cleere

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walnut Creek, Calif., : Left Coast Press, c2007

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-42180-1

1-315-42181-X

1-59874-651-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HodderIan

Disciplina

363.28/9092

Soggetti

Private security services - Turkey - Employees

Çatal Mound (Turkey)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-160).

Nota di contenuto

Beginning my new job at Çatalhöyük -- Excavations begin : the team settles in -- My routine as a guard -- Loneliness and friendship amongst the ancient mounds of the Konya plain -- I build the Çatalhöyük cafe -- Dealing with more visitors and foreigners -- Some less happy memories -- The past and the present -- Dealing with each other -- Doing the right thing -- More about Çatalhöyük -- Some erotic moments -- Financial dealings -- More visitors to Çatalhöyük and some difficult moments -- They stroke the soil with love -- Things start to go wrong -- The situation worsens -- Reaching the end.

Sommario/riassunto

They are essential to every major archaeological excavation but rarely acknowledged by the visiting researchers once the artifacts have been shipped. As part of the innovative, multivocal output from the famous Turkish Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, we hear from one of the site guards, Sadrettin Dural, who tells the story of the excavation from the point of view of the "Other." He offers tales of the strange habits of archaeologists, describes the local in-fighting that scholars never see, and explains how scientists can be protected from the Yatirs, spirits of the dead who guard the mound