This lively firsthand account of a major archaeological site is full of insights into past lives and momentous events, and is richly illustrated with images of the art, the artifacts, and the excavations themselves.

In solving this mystery, the reader is led into the elaborate social and symbolic world of C?atalho?yu?k-a world where people were buried beneath the floors of houses, later to be exhumed and decapitated, and the head handed down from generation to generation.

Cependant, les fouilles nont débuté quen 1989 et étaient motivées par le fait que la zone était menacée dinondation en raison dune modification dans la gestion des eaux du lac artificiel de Mamasn. Todd, dont la première visite sur place date de 1964. The Leopards Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of atalhyk (2006). Historique le code Les recherches scientifiques sur le site ont été initiées par Ian A. This article has been adapted from Ian Hodders forthcoming book, The Leopards Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of atalhyk, which is being published this. The book begins with a puzzle: leopards are a central part of C?atalho?yu?k’s art, but virtually none of their remains have been found. Ian Richard Hodder CMG FBA (born 23 November 1948, in Bristol) is a British archaeologist. The excavations changed our under- standing of the early farmers who started the road to complex civilization, but many questions were left unanswered until the early 1990s when new research began under the direction of Ian Hodder. The Neolithic mound of C?atalho?yu?k became internationally famous in the 1960s when an ancient town-one of the oldest in the world-was discovered together with wonderful wall paintings and sculptures, many featuring images of leopards.

The Leopard's Tale by Ian Hodder