MicroCommons

An integrated analytical methodology, including spectroscopic techniques and micromorphology, has been used to analyse mud plaster sequences and natural sediments from the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey in order to explore the uses and perceptions of soils and space at the site, as part of a recently completed PhD by Joanne Wiles (Wiles 2009). Questions under investigation include:
• What are the chemical and physical characteristics of the plaster materials employed architecturally at Çatalhöyük?
• Can possible sources of natural material be identified through comparison with the natural sediments?
• Have the raw materials been modified in the transition from raw material to finished product? And what are the biographies of the plasters?

Joanne Wiles

2009

Çatalhöyük Archive Report, pg. 151-152

Catherine P. Foster

Joanne Wiles, "Microspectroscopic analysis of plaster sequences (Çatalhöyük 2009 Archive Report)," in MicroCommons, Item #46, http://www.microcommons.org/items/show/46 (accessed May 22, 2013).