What I'm up to at Çatalhöyük This Summer - A Quick Intro
Channel: Prehistoric Living
Date: 19/07/2021

Hey Prehistoric Crew. It's been a while since I've posted a new video. As you'll see here I've been in Turkey working at Neolithic Çatalhöyük as an archaeologist since June 1st. The site is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and was occupied from 7100-5900BC, and I've been working here since 2012. My main jobs this year are as field director of excavations and chipped stone lab leader, so I haven't had much time for flintknapping or any of my other experimental plans. Getting some done slowly but surely, hoping to have a lot more to post by the end of the summer. Stay tuned. Cheers.

Here are the links to the the Ohio series that I finished recently:

Presenting the Completed Ohio Project - https://youtu.be/nfIW11jRc_Q

Starting a Hornstone Biface Cache - Biface #1 - https://youtu.be/eNzc6OBAXLU

Making a Hornstone Biface Cache - Biface #2 - https://youtu.be/nvvL4fwxepo

Biface #3 for the Hornstone Biface Cache - https://youtu.be/qM5FqN8gk6U

Breaking the 4th Biface for the Hornstone Cache - https://youtu.be/zF9cPLdHf6U

Spalling Down a Large Hornstone Nodule for the Biface Cache - https://youtu.be/RWz97xsgs1Q

Making an Ovate Biface with Stone and Antler Tools - https://youtu.be/tG6-QeCjSws

Making a Flat Round Biface for the Cache - https://youtu.be/7WAY0YLcuNs

Lucky #7 - Making the Final Biface for the Hornstone Cache - https://youtu.be/2ADFGXY2d5w

Flint Ridge Big Biface 1 - Direct Percussion Part 1 of 2 - https://youtu.be/IYZrJ96AUh8

Flint Ridge Big Biface 1 - Direct Percussion Part 2 of 2 - https://youtu.be/KHOeeWVHcjE

Flint Ridge Big Biface 1 of 4 - Indirect Percussion Part 1 - https://youtu.be/WS_Gu5jzC8g

Indirect Percussion Part 2 of 4 - Flint Ridge Big Biface 1 - https://youtu.be/X_lEvlw97Yg

Indirect Percussion Part 3 of 4 - Flint Ridge Big Biface 1 - https://youtu.be/OohV2nvvlIw

Indirect Percussion Part 4 of 4 - Flint Ridge Big Biface 1 - https://youtu.be/Nrcobpet8dw

Finishing a Flint Ridge Agate Basin Point with Pressure Flaking - https://youtu.be/wi1YACNYJkI

Flint Ridge Small Biface 2 - Initial Reduction - https://youtu.be/cGDYZW9um44

Flint Ridge Small Biface 2 - Intermediate Thinning - https://youtu.be/qdfzm724Bj4

Flint Ridge Small Biface 2 - Initial Pressure Flaking - https://youtu.be/eXmo67bfWxc

More Pressure Flaking - Flint Ridge Small Biface 2 - https://youtu.be/FFaHaHhTDjI

Notching and Finishing a Benton Point - Flint Ridge Small Biface 2 - https://youtu.be/cMjz6wdR9GE

Pressure Flaking a Thebes Point - Flint Ridge Big Biface 3 - https://youtu.be/OEO_X0skmWo

Flint Ridge Big Biface 3 - Indirect Percussion Thinning - https://youtu.be/5bpiLkwf1_I

Flint Ridge Big Biface 3 - Initial Reduction - Will it Break? - https://youtu.be/ZkLW4jTVojk


And check out these links to some of my other recent videos below:

Flintknapping in 4K - Mahogany Obsidian - Intermediate Thinning - https://youtu.be/yrBgpi2Kev0

Flintknapping in 4K - Mahogany Obsidian - Initial Biface Reduction - https://youtu.be/UxF0wYGfTm4

Starting a Small Shelter - https://youtu.be/cZmgsypHWkg

Hafting Stone Axe with Pine Pitch and Chopping Down Two Saplings (Black Walnut) - https://youtu.be/QFGG9qfAd8E

Making Pine Pitch and Improving My Grinding Stone - https://youtu.be/AlOIT4v7zbY

Hornstone Nodule 2 - Spalling and Making a Small Axe - https://youtu.be/aylgLXLQ9_I

Finishing an Agatized Coral Clovis Point - https://youtu.be/PEuVvMc-clY

Making a Mud Updraft Kiln - https://youtu.be/pM6-iQaVvQs

First Pottery Firing in the Kiln - https://youtu.be/1SqNisf1_JA

Baking Bread in the Updraft Kiln - https://youtu.be/nuPezrenshc

Enlarging the Kiln Firebox and Firing Two Small Pots - https://youtu.be/aoms7qvhUjU