 The Department of Archaeology celebrates the end of an active and eventful year with two new book publications: "Living in Mud," by Ben Claasz Coockson, is devoted to the history of a slowly fading building tradition in the Near East - the mudbrick dwelling. An active fieldworker for many decades, Coockson has not only excavated, but actually lived in such traditional buildings. His book is a comprehensive archaeological and ethnographical account of this thousands-of-years-old tradition. The richly illustrated book is now available at the price of 35 TL in stores or at www.zerobooksonline.com.
"Sacred Landscapes in Anatolia and Neighboring Regions," edited by faculty members Charles Gates, Jacques Morin and Thomas Zimmermann, contains essays about the ritual dimension of land use in both prehistoric and historic societies. The timeline ranges from Chalcolithic times to the Middle Ages. A wide array of phenomena is surveyed, from rock paintings and pottery use in ritual contexts, to church architecture and sacred spaces in the Yezidi religion. The book is published by Archaeopress/ Oxford (British Archaeological Reports International Series) and available at the price of 31 GBP at www.archaeopress.com.
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