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	James Mellaart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mellaart was also involved in a string of controversies that eventually lead to his banning from excavations in Turkey in the 1960s.
		James Mellaart was born in 1925 in London.
		Mellaart said that he had seen the treasures in a home of a young woman who he had seen in Izmir.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Mellaart (534 words)

	James Mellaart
		James Mellaart is an English archaeologist who is responsible for discovering the city of Catalhoyuk in Turkey.
		When Mellaart excavated the site in the 1950s more than 150 rooms and buildings were found, all decorated with murals, plaster reliefs, and sculptures.
		The city as a whole was enormous covering roughly 32.5 acres, and housing up to around 10,000 people, whereas the norm for the time was around one tenth of this size.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/James_Mellaart.html (240 words)

	A Weaver's View of the Catal Huyuk Controversy, by Marla Mallett
		Mellaart says in his report that although both the shrine's "north and the greatest part of the east wall are destroyed, the rest stands to a height of 6 feet." He subsequently describes all of the extant surfaces and their large plaster reliefs.
		Mellaart has told us that "the appalling state of preservation of the paintings, or rather the fragments thereof, meant that many years were needed for their assemblage." But in no instance have we been told the extent of the fragments from which the new "reconstructions" were extrapolated.
		Mellaart, James: Hirsch, Udo; and Balpinar, Belkis, The Goddess from Anatolia, Milan, 1989.
	www.marlamallett.com /ch.htm (7077 words)

	[CPProt.net] Dig Of The Century: Getting To The Bottom Of The Dorak Affair
		Mellaart said he was able to deduce this from a gold sheet in the collection, which he claimed was once attached to a wooden throne.
		James Mellaart is almost always described as a genius archaeologist, a man capable of losing himself in discovery and ignoring realities like holes in shoes and the possible motives of a woman wearing the right sort of ancient jewelry.
		The new wall paintings she said Mellaart claimed were reconstructed from tiny fragments which were too numerous and too small to be preserved or photographed and that the tracings on which the reconstructions were based had been destroyed in a fire at Arlette's father's home on the Bosphorus in the mid 70s.
	te.verweg.com /pipermail/cpprot/2005-August/001602.html (3293 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Çatalhöyük and the New Archeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Mellaart knew of much earlier art on cave walls and rock faces, but this was the earliest known art painted by humans on houses they had built.
		Mellaart calls it the earliest known landscape painting; others say it is perhaps the oldest known map.
		Mellaart's interpretation, which has enjoyed wide currency, was that these were goddesses and, as such, indicators that Çatalhöyük likely had a matriarchal society.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/200205/.atalh.y.k.and.the.new.archeology.htm (3268 words)

	AN UPDATED VIEW OF THE ÇATAL HÜYÜK CONTROVERSY
		Mellaart's basic theory held that large paintings on some interior walls of this complex were copies of actual woven kilims used in other, more important buildings.
		Mellaart has now claimed that this building had "some ten successive layers of painting, all differing from each other." He has not explained this latest contradiction, nor has he told us why such extensive paintings were ignored in the 1963 report.
		Mellaart, James, "The Earliest Representations of the Goddess of Anatolia and Her Entourage," Anatolische kelims; Symposium Basel, Die Vorträge, Jürg Rageth, ed., Basel, November 1990, pp.
	www.rugreview.com /orr/132marl.htm (5153 words)

	Neolithic Humans Studied Insects to Master Farming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A reexamination of the work of archaeologist James Mellaart—conducted by Raymond Lane (founder of superpsychology)—has found that within the period 10,000-4,000 BC, humans may have studied the insect’s role of plant pollinator in order to understand farming.
		Mellaart, James, Earliest Civilizations of the Near East, Thames and Hudson, London, 1965.
		Mellaart, James, Çatal Hüyük: A Neolithic Town in Anatolia, Thames and Hudson, London, 1967.
	i-newswire.com /goprint964.html (740 words)

	HKHPE 55 06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		James Mellaart: "In the sanctuary E VI A 14 these people have in their cult places of Çatal Hüyük first coloured the bones of their deceased baby with ochre.
		And a pair of leopards, a male and a female, which is depicted in relief and painted, we found in the sanctuary VI B and A 44.
		The frequency, with which the goddess is shown together with wild animals, probably reflects her earlier role as a protectress of the wild animals of a population of hunters, and also as the lady of the hunt." James Mellaart Çatal Hüyük (1968:215, 216, 233).
	hanskrause.de /HKHPE/hkhpe_55_06.htm (1855 words)

	Notes on James Mark Keshishian A.S.A.
		James Keshishian expanded the family business and in 1980 established the Armenian Rug Society, for rug enthusiasts to discuss, research and document Armenian-made rugs.
		James Mark Keshishian, 78, who for the past 30 years was president of Mark Keshishian and Sons, his family's oriental carpet business in Chevy Chase and who was also a leader in Washington's Armenian community, died May 15 at his daughter's home in McLean.
		James Kashishian and his brother Harold continued to run the family business after the death in 1985 of their father, founder Mark Keshishian.
	www.spongobongo.com /no9969.htm (2539 words)

	Notes on James Mellaart
		Credited by some with discovering the oldest known city in the world James Mellaart was also expelled from Turkey in a scandal that rocked the archeology world and was accused of accademic fraud in the Mother Goddess foolishness.
		Mellaart is retired from teaching at the University of London, and he lives with his wife Arlette, in north London.
		Arlette Mellaart, who went to live there ar fifteen, recalls three happy decades spent in this fragile bohemian setting: her stepfather's haughty mother, the cats and the rats, the bustling Bosphorus, the parties, the wartime intrigues, and married life - all to the accompaniment of her mother's piano-playing.
	www.spongobongo.com /her9853.htm (396 words)

	Catal Hoyuk - Atlantis Rising
		The first being the one Mellaart is working on and the other is carried out on the far side of the hoyuk (hill).
		Mellaart's excavation is an important measurement for the answers to the many questions.
		Among the discoveries were platforms used as divans embellished with the horns of bulls, sunken stone seats and wall paintings which highlight the richness of elements used in the decoration of houses.
	forums.atlantisrising.com /ubb/Forum15/HTML/000167.html (4363 words)

	TurkoTek Discussion Forums - About Kurdish Rugs
		Mellaart was not the last word at Catal Huyuk, which is still an active archeological dig.
		Mellaart’s faux pas is undeniable but if he had presented the rug work as supposition and conjecture then all would have been better received.
		As for the topic at hand, leaving Mr Mellaart aside for the moment, which seems to boil down to the method of manufacture of the textiles from Catal and their relationship to your presentation, my comments and not yours are closest to the truth.
	www.turkotek.com /salon_00088/s88t13.htm (11753 words)

	Orbis Quintus » Blog Archive » the lost treasures of Dorak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Well, the ones described by James Mellaart turn out not to have ever existed.
		In 1961, James Mellaart excavated Çatalhöyük in Turkey.
		Mellaart claimed to be duped, but a letter has surfaced, with certain idiosynchrasies of his typing, that point to his complicity in the hoax.
	orbis-quintus.net /blog/?p=1800 (194 words)

	Archaeological Evidence shows that Human Civilisation was Modeled on the Superorganism
		The archaeological record, and a reexamination of the work of archaeologist James Mellaart, shows that this study led to a sense of affiliation with social insects, since their societies had similarities with human society.
		So for the inhabitants there probably was a hierarchy of a queen at the top, artisans in the middle, and workers on the bottom--thus mimicking the bee hierarchy of queen, drones, and workers.
		Mellaart noted that over time, the king appears less frequently in statues, and that an interaction with bees would have occurred to (at least) make mead (a wine made from honey).
	members.tripod.com /superpsychology/evidence.html (2878 words)

	HKHPE 39 01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The archaeologist James Mellaart has dug out and studied the ancient town of Çatal Hüyük, on the Konya Plain, in Anatolia, southern Turkey: its houses and shrines.
		James Mellaart reports in his book, Çatal Hüyük – A Neolithic Town in Anatolia: “The fourteen radiocarbon dates then place Çatal Hüyük X-II between c.
		The numbers of the figures and plates, shown here, do refer to those in James Mellaart’s book.
	hanskrause.de /HKHPE/hkhpe_39_01.htm (992 words)

	FA211: The World's First City
		American archaeologist Walter Fairservis, Jr., writing in 1975, described it as a community "at the threshold of civilization." Çatalhöyük was first brought to worldwide attention by James Mellaart, whose excavations from 1961 to 1965 revealed more than 150 dwellings and rooms, many decorated with murals, plaster reliefs, and sculpture.
		For example, we have found that rooms like those he called shrines-buildings with murals, plaster reliefs, and sculpture-are numerous and occur throughout the mound, demonstrating that there is no evidence of a ritual elite concentrated in a "priestly quarter," as he suggested.
		Mellaart, such as micromorphology, the study of soils and sediments in thin sections under the microscope, are also contributing to our understanding of the site.
	www2.bc.edu /~mcdonadh/course/huyuk.html (2166 words)

	Çatalhöyük Bibliography
		Mellaart, J. (1963) Deities and Shrines of Neolithic Anatolia.
		Mellaart, J. (1984), "Animals in the Neolithic Art of Çatal Hüyük and Hacilar and their Religious Significance".
		Mellaart, J. (1990) "The Earliest Representations of the Goddess of Anatolia and Her Entourage," in J. Rageth (ed.), Anatolische kelims; Symposium Basel, Die Vorträge.
	www.catalhoyuk.com /bibliography.html (2738 words)

	Cornucopia Magazine highlights of issue 19, including Ottoman art in Poland, Safranbolu interiors, Edirne's Chinese ...
		Before the Mesopotamians, Minoans or Egyptians, the people of Catalhuyuk created one of the first cities known to man. Built from the profits of their trade in obsidian, the glassy volcanic rock used to make early implements, this was a flourishing settlement that has forced archaeologists to rethink the chronology of civilisation.
		James Mellaart (left, at Catalhuyuk in the early Sixties), who unearthed the city and its stunning wall paintings, recalls the stages of a momentous discovery.
		Cornucopia first major article on Anatolian prehistory tells the story of Mellaart's momentous discovery and includes photographs of life and work on the dig and in the surrounding villages of the Konya plain, as well drawings of the murals during the excavation.
	www.cornucopia.net /highlights19.html (753 words)

	The CANEW Project
		Archaeological research in Central Anatolia started seriously in the 1950s with James Mellaart from the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara (BIAA), who surveyed large stretches of the Konya and Karaman Plains.
		Mellaart's and French's ideas about the importance and ancestry of the general region of Central Anatolia were to be fully confirmed by their projects, yielding the first glimpses of the existence of a powerful Aceramic Neolithic society in Turkey away from the Fertile Crescent.
		At the same time, in order to get a full overview of prehistoric settlement distribution for Central Anatolia, Ian Todd carried out a major survey project in the area, the published results of which are still unsurpassed in their analytic and perceptive power after more than two decades.
	www.canew.org /introbox.html (1796 words)

	James Mellaart
		He recently retired from teaching at the University of London and lives with his wife, Arlette, in north London.
		James Mellaart is credited with discovering and bringing worldwide attention to Catalhoyuk, Turkey, which is considered by some scholars to be the world’s first city.
		James and his wife still visit the site regularly.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/klmno/mellaart_james.html (170 words)

	INK Discussion :: View topic - Mazur: Getting To The Bottom Of The Dorak Affair
		Michael Balter in his recent biography of Catalhoyuk, The Goddess and the Bull (Free Press), says Mellaart's pursuit of the Sea Peoples, who he theorized came from Anatolia and "harrassed Egypt and the Levant", was what originally took Mellaart to Turkey.
		Mellaart resurfaced from Anna's place with rough sketches of the pieces.
		But regarding Mellaart's Dorak treasure, French, a man who was affiliated with BIAA for almost 40 years and most recently served as its director, told me by phone from Ankara that little aside from grave pottery has ever been found that is considered Yortan.
	www.inkemetic.org /INKForum/viewtopic.php?t=1771&highlight=&sid=d7d36a5ed0c6f63c594a7b6b05b11380 (6512 words)

	THE GODDESS UNCOVERED
		James Mellaart, the 1st archaeologist to excavate this site, published his archaeological findings in a book he entitled, Catal Huyuk,which is the name of the neolithic settlement.
		Scene #4: Mellaart returns to England and receives a strange letter from her in which she complains that he seemed more interested in the artifacts than he was with her but she does give him permission to use the drawings.
		This eventually causes Mellaart to have a falling out with the Turkish government as they become very suspicious of him and the lost Trojan artifacts.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~thelink7/LINKA.HTML (1309 words)

	Hacilar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		What remained of Hacilar became a mound on the plain and remained so until 1956.
		It was in this year that a local teacher showed the mound to British archaeologist James Mellaart.
		In 1957 the excavation of Hacilar began under Mellaart's direction and continued until 1960.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hacilar (296 words)

	Centuries of Darkness Reply to Mellaart
		Regarding James Mellaart's review of Centuries of Darkness in BAIAS 11 (1991-2), while it contains several constructive comments, we note that the key evidence which he adduces against our case comes from two unpublished texts: an Arzawan document referred to as the 'Beyköy Text', and a letter of Assurbanipal to 'Ardu, king of Arzawa'.
		It is with regret that we have to point out that crucial evidence of this kind must always be accessible by some means before it is used as a basis for passing judgement on someone's work.
		We hope that no ramifications will arise from Mellaart's "vital material for chronology" - such uncorroborated citations merely muddy the waters of scholarship.
	www.centuries.co.uk /reply4.htm (232 words)

	Grinding it Out
		Pictures of at least six obsidian artifacts from Çatalhöyük were published and claimed to be mirrors by the site's first excavator, James Mellaart, who dug there in the 1960s.
		The eleventh item, in storage at the Konya museum, is possibly the beginnings of a mirror in the early stage of grinding a core to produce a flat surface.
		The conventional answer given by Mellaart is for a woman to view her application of make-up, but few obsidian mirrors have been found and these only in the middle occupation levels at Çatalhöyük.
	www.archaeology.org /online/news/mirrors.html (1011 words)

	Catal huyuk, bibliografia, alojado en www.dearqueologia.com,autora Isabel Prieto
		Mellaart, J. Deities and Shrines of Neolithic Anatolia.
		Mellaart, J. Çatal Hüyük a Neolithic City in Anatolia.
		Mellaart, J. "The Earliest Representations of the Goddess of Anatolia and Her Entourage," in J. Rageth (ed.), Anatolische kelims; Symposium Basel, Die Vorträge.
	www.dearqueologia.com /catal_bibliografia.htm (1336 words)

	Fifteen Frequently Asked Questions
		We responded in a letter (James and Morkot 1991), towards the end of which we focussed on his "single example".
		Mellaart does not appear to have mentioned his tablet since.
		James, P., Kokkinos, N., and Thorpe, I. "Mediterranean Chronology in Crisis", in M. Balmuth and R. Tykot (eds): Sardinian and Aegean Chronology: Proceedings of the International Colloquium 'Sardinian Stratigraphy and Mediterranean Chronology, Tufts University, March 17-19, 1995 (Studies in Sardinian Archaeology V - Oxford: Oxbow Books), pp.
	www.centuries.co.uk /faq.htm (8562 words)

	Contemporary Social Developments
		Here in four seasons of excavations from 1961-65, James Mellaart discovered remains of a Neolithic village of mud-brick houses, many of which he viewed as shrines.
		This evidence led Mellaart to speculate that these civilized achievements are not adequately represented in Neolithic discoveries.
		Helbaek and Mellaart could not accept the Anatolian plain as the source of those grains because the environmental conditions were not appropriate.
	www.world-destiny.org /or/contemporary.htm (2263 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He is especially good in telling the tale of James Mellaart who discovered Catalhoyuk in 1958.
		One of the most touching scenes in this tome is Balter’s description of Mellaart’s eventual return to Catalhoyuk-decades after his discovery of it and shortly after the Turks relented and rescinded their ban, mostly for sentimental reasons.
		There is perhaps a tad too much biographical information about some of the lesser players at the contemporary dig but I suppose Balter has assumed the reader is also an archeologist of sorts-the reader can sift through their own mesh that which they deem vital to behold and retain.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743243609 (656 words)

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