Mellaart, James
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Name (Hebrew)
מלארט, ג'יימס
Name (Latin)
Mellaart, James
Name (Arabic)
ميلارت، جيمس
Date of birth
1925-11-14
Date of death
2012-07-29
Field of activity
Turkey--Antiquities
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1925
Lecturer in Anatolian Archaeology
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- His Earliest civilizations of the Near East, 1965.
- LCN
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The British archaeologist James Mellaart in the middle smoking a cigarette
Omar Hoftun, CC BY-SA 3.0
File:James Mellaart excavating a mural in Çatalhöyük..jpg
Omar hoftun, CC BY-SA 3.0
Wikipedia description:
James Mellaart FBA (14 November 1925 – 29 July 2012) was a British and Dutch archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was expelled from Turkey when he was suspected of involvement with the antiquities black market. He was also involved in a string of controversies, including the so-called mother goddess controversy in Anatolia, which eventually led to his being banned from excavations in Turkey in the 1960s. After his death, it was discovered that Mellaart had forged many of his "finds", including murals and inscriptions from the Çatalhöyük site.
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