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1 online resource (162 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword; Preface; 1. Beginning my new job at Çatalhöyük; 2. Excavations begin-the team settles in; 3. My routine as a guard; 4. Loneliness and friendship amongst the ancient mounds of the Konya plain; 5. I build the Çatalhöyük cafe; 6. Dealing with more visitors and foreigners; 7. Some less happy memories; 8. The past and the present; 9. Dealing with each other; 10. Doing the right thing; 11. More about Çatalhöyük; 12. Some erotic moments; 13. Financial dealings; 14. More visitors to Çatalhöyük and some difficult moments; 15. They stroke the soil with love |
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16. Things start to go wrong17. The situation worsens; 18. Reaching the end; Appendix: My tour of Çatalhöyük; Afterword: Dialogue between Sadrettin Dural and Ian Hodder; Notes; Bibliography |
| Summary |
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. Ian |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Private security services -- Turkey -- Employees -- Biography
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Private security services -- Employees
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Turkey
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hodder, Ian
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| ISBN |
9781598746518 |
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1598746510 |
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1598740490 |
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9781598740493 |
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1598740504 |
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9781598740509 |
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