TPC Team / Photo Gallery.

In years 2012-2017 the work on the Late Neolithic at Çatalhöyük was carried out in the new excavation zone named the TP Connection Area (TPC), located in the previously unexplored area on the SW slope of its southern prominence. It is placed between the TP Area and Mellaart Area A to the east and north and South Area to the west and south. TPC trenches were hence set up south of Mellaart's Area A, where remains of buildings assigned to Level I and III were discovered in the 1960s. It is also worth mentioning that Level III in Area A is represented by two buildings designated by Mellaart as shrines (Shrine 1, "Hunting Shrine", and Shrine 8). The most northern part of the TPC Area is located where Buildings 4 and 5 from Level III (according to Mellaart's scheme) were located. It is also placed as close as possible to the South shelter's southeastern corner and its eastern edge, where Building 10 and several associated exterior spaces were excavated in past years (Kotsakis 1996, 1997; Jonsson 2003). 

The work in the TPC1 Area commenced in the 2012 excavation season and continued until 2017. They have been conducted within the Çatalhöyük Research Project (see e.g. Hodder 2014) as a project of Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań directed by Arkadiusz Marciniak. They were carried out in four new trenches. Trench 1 is 5 x 5 m and is located directly to the south of Mellaart Area A. Trench 2 is placed directly south of Trench 1 with an overall dimension is 5 x 6 m. Trench 3 is located in the southern part of the TPC Area. It is quadrilateral in shape, with the southern and eastern edges being 10 m long and the northern edge measuring 6 m in length. Trench 4, measuring ca. 8 x 6 m, is located in between these two sections of the TPC Area. The ultimate goal of this project was to connect the stratigraphy in the TP Area, excavated in the years 2001-2008, with the main stratigraphic sequence in the South, which has been reached. The corresponding goal comprises recognition of architecture, burial practice, pottery, and obsidian manufacture. They will make it possible to investigate changes in subsistence and the economic system, in particular whether the economy became more intensive, more integrated, and more heavily based on individual household production. These variables will be studied in the period immediately following the demise of the classic phase of occupation, delimited by the end of the South sequence (Building 10 in South-T), and the beginning of the TP sequence (Building 81 in TP-M).

Polish team had an international character and included archaeologists  and students from Stanford University, Cardiff University, Selcuk University and contract archaeologists from Sweden.

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TPC Team (2012-2017)
 

2012	2013	2014	2015
Arkadiusz Marciniak Malwina Brachmanska Maciej Chyleński Agata Czeszewska Mateusz Dembowiak Patrycja Filipowicz Katarzyna Harabasz Jędrzej Hordecki WeronikaStosik Tugce Ertabak Nick Brown	Arkadiusz Marciniak Malwina Brachmańska Maciej Chyleński Agata Czeszewska Mateusz Dembowiak Patrycja Filipowicz Katarzyna Harabasz Jędrzej Hordecki Aleksandra Neumann Weronika Stosik Marika Michalak Kamilla Pawłowska Allison Mickel Bright Zhou Selma Efeler Erik Johansson	Piotr Ciesielski Maciej Chyleński  Agata Czeszewska  Mateusz Dembowiak Patrycja Filipowicz Katarzyna Harabasz Jędrzej Hordecki  Karolina Joka	Arkadiusz Marciniak Mikolaj Budner  Piotr Ciesielski  Maciej Chyleński Mateusz Dembowiak Patrycja Filipowicz Katarzyna Harabasz Jędrzej Hordecki Karolina Joka  Milena Kubiaczyk Weronika Stosik Thomas Allen Phillip Holt Elizabeth Trinh Paul Pettersson Jana Rogasch Chelsea Wiseman Daniel Murphy  ..
2016	2017
Arkadiusz Marciniak Mikolaj Budner Maciej Chyleński  Mateusz Dembowiak  Anna Haberland  Jędrzej Hordecki Karolina Joka Anna Rybarczyk Weronika Stosik	Arkadiusz Marciniak Mikolaj Budner  Mateusz Dembowiak Patrycja Filipowicz Anna Haberland Katarzyna Harabasz Jędrzej Hordecki Karolina Joka Milena Kubiaczyk Katarzyna Regulska Weronika Stosik ...

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