Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to the Turkish General Directorate of Museums and Heritage and the Konya Museum for permission to export the small blocks of soil for micromorphological analysis and study microstratigraphic sequences at Çatalhöyük. We wish to thank Serena Love, a doctoral student at Stanford University for kindly agreeing to collect micromorphological samples during the last 10 days of the excavation. A NERC student travel grant supported travel to the site by Lisa-Marie Shillito to conduct independent research for her MSc Geoarchaeology Dissertation. We are very grateful to the Project Director, Ian Hodder, Site Director Shahina Farid, and all team members for the kind support given to this research.

We are also very grateful the following Project Directors for kind permission to study microstratigraphic sequences at other sites: Dr Douglas Baird and Professor Trevor Watkins at Pınarbşı, Dr John Last and Dr Catriona Gibson on the West Mound at Çatalhöyük; Professor Ufuk Esin at Aşıklı Höyük, Dr Mihriban Özbaşaran at Musular, and Dr Nur Balkan Atlı and Dr Didier Binder at Kaletepe.