-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Not a map, but a leopard's skin, at prehistoric Catalhoyuk Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:31:40 -0000 From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> CC: 'Maps-L' And now, for something completely different:- A bird’s eye view – of a leopard’s spots : the Çatalhöyük ‘map’ and the development of cartographic representation in prehistory / Stephanie Meece. – /In/: Anatolian Studies (Ankara : The British Institute at Ankara ; Hertford : printed by Stephen Austin & Sons), 2006, *56*, 1-16: ill. – Bibliogr.: p.13-16. – Summ. in E & Tr. – “This article re-evaluates the claim that one of these [wall] paintings is a map of the village, with Hasan Dağ erupting above it. It is argued that the [1963] excavator [i.e. J. Mellaart (1964)]’s first interpretation of the objects . . . that they are a leopard skin above a panel of geometric design, is in fact a far more reasonable one, when . . . contextualised within the entire corpus of painting and other art objects found at the site.” – Summ. in E. - ISSN 0066-1546 This re-interpretation of a Neolithic art work (and ideas of spatial and symbolic representation) may well ‘set the cat [or leopard] among the pigeons’ . . . PS: Some computers may not cope with the Turkish diacritics in this message (the ‘Subject’ header is simplified). Francis Herbert [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>