| Entry: | There is an ambiguous difference between interpreting a stratigraphic sequence and trying to understand past events. Single context method and Harris-matrix empower us with an analytic tool, which gives a structure to our work, we can share with each other. On the other hand the core questions we pose to the archaeological evidence are about what people did on the very spot we dig. Here one needs to dare to not be content with the stratigraphic order and the available models, but to pose questions on the concrete activities, which produced that specific order.
And now why are two of the post retrieving pits ın B89 so big? The people inhabiting Catal didn`t need to make so big holes to retrieve the posts! We put so much effort in the reconstructing the stratigraphic order of events, but the real motivations of why that order looks like that, is still very difficult to grasp. We may agree on the stratigraphic understandment of the unıts, and still disagree on the actual reason why things are as they look like. |
