TY - BOOK AU - Dural,Sadrettin AU - Hodder,Ian AU - Cleere,Duygu Camurcuoğlu TI - Protecting Çatalhöyük: memoir of an archaeological site guard SN - 9781598746518 AV - GN776.32.T9 D85 2007eb U1 - 363.28/9092 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Walnut Creek, Calif. PB - Left Coast Press KW - Dural, Sadrettin, KW - Private security services KW - Turkey KW - Employees KW - Biography KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Freedom & Security KW - Law Enforcement KW - fast KW - Ausgrabung KW - idszbz KW - Çatal Mound (Turkey) KW - Çatal Höyük (Turquie) KW - Çatal Mound KW - Çatal Hüjük KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books KW - Biographies N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160); Beginning my new job at Çatalhöyük -- Excavations begin : the team settles in -- My routine as a guard -- Loneliness and friendship amongst the ancient mounds of the Konya plain -- I build the Çatalhöyük cafe -- Dealing with more visitors and foreigners -- Some less happy memories -- The past and the present -- Dealing with each other -- Doing the right thing -- More about Çatalhöyük -- Some erotic moments -- Financial dealings -- More visitors to Çatalhöyük and some difficult moments -- They stroke the soil with love -- Things start to go wrong -- The situation worsens -- Reaching the end; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - They are essential to every major archaeological excavation but rarely acknowledged by the visiting researchers once the artifacts have been shipped. As part of the innovative, multivocal output from the famous Turkish Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, we hear from one of the site guards, Sadrettin Dural, who tells the story of the excavation from the point of view of the "Other." He offers tales of the strange habits of archaeologists, describes the local in-fighting that scholars never see, and explains how scientists can be protected from the Yatirs, spirits of the dead who guard the mound UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=398699 ER -