Informative Program for Guides

During July 24 – 27, 2003, Turkish Friends, together with the Tour Guides' Association of Turkey (TUREB), organized a program, in order to meet the demand for expert guides on Catalhoyuk. Guides participating in the program had detailed training visits to Catalhoyuk and also to Sille, Klistra, Karaman, Taskale, Lystra, Derbe and “Binbir Klise.” Catalhoyuk Archeologists provided participating guides information on following subjects:

Shahina Farid: The sequence of occupation at Çatalhöyük
Bleda Düring: The art and architecture of Çatalhöyük
Nerissa Russell: The faunal remains
Ali Türkcan: The figurines and stamp seals
Ayfer Bartu: The communities of Çatalhöyük today
Jon Last: The West Mound
Ian Hodder: Daily life at Çatalhöyük
Ruth Tringham/Mira Stevanovic: The BACH excavations
Arek Marciniak: The Polish TP excavations
Nurcan Yalman: The pottery; and ethnoarchaeology
Meltem Agcabay: The botanical remains
Basak Boz: The human remains

Turkish Friends are grateful to Catalhoyuk Archeologists for their valuable contribution and to the Hilton Hotel for their support for the organization.

You can contact the guides who successfully completed the examination (g-2) given at the end of the program to help with your Catalhoyuk visit.