Integrating Magnetic and GPR Survey At Çatalhöyük

Notwithstanding the scale of the excavations to date, a considerable part of the area of the site is still largely unknown. Magnetic survey conducted over the central part of the East Mound in 1992 and 1993 (Shell 1996) provided some shallow sub-surface data for the nature of the archaeology of the mound, although the results were not entirely conclusive. Further geophysical survey was also conducted in 2000 by Johnson and Dobbs, using magnetometry, ground penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) (http://www.archaeology-geophysics.com/Catalhoyuk.html). No other geophysical survey has been carried out at the site, and thus the potential for assessing the extent and form of structural remains at Çatalhöyük is considerable. To this end two seasons of geophysical survey were conducted at Çatalhöyük; in 2010 by a team from the University of Southampton, and in 2012 by a joint British and Italian team from the University of Southampton