In the first season of renewed investigations at Çatalhöyük a total length of ca. 51m of field sections, 175m2 in area, were cleaned, photographed, drawn at 1:20 and described, in Area A and the northern half of Area E of the 1960s' excavations.…

Microartifact studies are a growing area of analysis, which generally focus on the density of materials in floor deposits as a means of identifying in situ traces of activities. The underlying assumption is that due to variety of taphonomic factors…

Dating and examination of plaster floor sequences by micromorphology at a tell site in Greece shows when they were made and how they were composed. While numerous informal floor surfaces using recycled rubbish were put in place, as and when, by the…

Micromorphology (Courty et al. 1989) is becoming increasingly used as a means of investigating site formation processes and cultural activities by studying deposits in their precise depositional context, allowing us to look at how the material was…

Wendy Matthews takes a sample from a Neolithic floor for study under a microscope.