[Anthropgrad] Prof Ruth Tringham- public lecture- this Friday

[Fay.Castles]

*Professor Ruth Tringham* (Faculty of Anthropology, University of 
California, Berkeley) The Last House on the Hill: Reflections on the 
Biography of Building 3 at Çatalhöyük 

> //*3.30pm Friday 5 October 2007/
> /*NB Change of venue:  Conference Room, Old Canberra  House,  
> Liversidge St, ANU.  Please join us for drinks afterwards
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> Abstract: Building 3 was a single house, 9000 years old that was 
> excavated by a team from UC Berkeley (1997-2004) as a separate entity 
> within the very large international project at the Neolithic mound of 
> Çatalhöyük in Turkey. I use the story of our lives in the tent over 
> seven years of excavation woven into the life of prehistoric Building 
> 3 as we revealed it as a platform from which to examine the nature of 
> large scale archaeological projects in the 21st century. The scale at 
> which the investigation of the Neolithic mounds at Çatalhöyük is 
> conceived is enormous, as big as some of the excavations carried out 
> in the Near East and other places in the world in the 19th and 20th 
> centuries. There are many significant and interesting ways, however, 
> in which the project at Çatalhöyük differs remarkably from these, not 
> least of which are the significant challenges of the global political, 
> social, ethical, and financial context of early 21st century 
> archaeology. But there are also differences in the ways that 
> archaeologists here think and work together. The story of Building 3 
> is a tale told at multiple scales, through multiple voices, to 
> multiple audiences, and experienced through multiple senses. I am 
> biased in thinking that digital (New Media) technology has played a 
> significant role in the transformations and the telling.
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>Presented by the Research School of
>Humanities and the Centre for Archaeological Research, Research School of
>Pacific and Asian
>Studies
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> Suzanne Knight
> Executive Officer, Research School of Humanities
> Old Canberra House, Building 73
> The Australian National University
> Canberra 0200 Australia
> T: +61 2 6125 3901
> F: +61 2 6248 0054
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Jodi Parvey
Project Officer
Research School of Humanities
Old Canberra House (Building 73)
Lennox Crossing
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia

Phone 6125 8963
Fax 6248 0054


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