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"It's the art that makes Çatalhöyük really distinctive," says Ian Hodder as we relax on the north side of the mound, in the sunny forecourt of the complex of buildings referred to as "the dig house." Here are the laboratories, living quarters, dining room, visitors' center, archeological storage areas and a replica of a Çatalhöyük mud-brick house, all a shard's throw from the excavations.

"There are Neolithic sites a thousand years older [than Çatalhöyük], but none have the density of art, the paintings, the elaborate scenes with narrative content that tell you a story," he says.

Hodder, a quiet, boyish-looking professor of anthropology at Stanford, is the director of the Çatalhöyük Research Project. He is also arguably the world's leading theoretical archeologist. In 1993, he reopened the excavations of this site that had been abandoned in 1965. The abundance of interpretation-oriented questions that Çatalhöyük raises made it, in his opinion, an ideal place to experiment with new archeological methods rooted in the postmodern movement in the social sciences.

Since then Hodder has headed an international team comprising not just archeologists, but also anthropologists, architects, archeozoologists, archeo-botanists, geologists and dozens of other specialists from around the world—up to 110 people per season—to plumb the depths of this mound that is yielding questions and artifacts in roughly comparable abundance. Hodder estimates that there is enough work here to keep the team busy until at least 2018.
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