Results

The project resulted in a number of ways. Among them were conference presentations and reports that discussed pottery, remains of animal bones, flint and obsidian tools, as well as new carbon dating related to the demise of Catalhöyük East. These reports allowed to reflect upon stratigraphy and the trajectory of development of the Neolithic settlement at Catalhöyük East.

However, the main result of the project was a paper published in Antiquity by Arkadiusz Marciniak et al. where the authors discuss  a Bayesian chronology for the late occupation of Catalhöyük East. Bayesian analysis of 56 AMS radiocarbon dates from these layers allow the date and pace of these changes to be established in detail. Settlement activity on the East Mound ceased just after 6000 cal BC, and was followed by the cessation of Neolithic burial activity a few decades later.

Another reverent result of the project is a book chapter written by Arkadiusz Marciniak and Lech Czerniak in which the authors analyse the Catalhöyük East towards the end of the 5th millennium cal. BC. It going to be published in a book entitled 6.000 BC: Times of change in the Near East and Europe edited by P. F. Biehl and E. Rosenstock.