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Five microhistories/database narratives created about Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey for Dead Women do Tell Tales 

Five microhistories/database narratives created about Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey for Dead Women do Tell Tales 

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In this paper I bring together the ideas of Steve Anderson (Recombinant History), Lev Manovich (Database Narratives) and Kathleen Stewart (Ordinary Affects) with my own experience in creating experimental narratives for archaeology using multiple media formats. It explores the fragmentary and non-linear nature of narratives about the past as a legi...

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... of the fragments in the "Basket in Feature 634" microhistory entitled "Who is buried in F.634" is a video that remediates and remixes the primary data in the Last House on the Hill database describing how we came to designate the woman buried in F.634 as 'Dido'. This fragment, as with a number of others, appears also in three of the other microhistories (Figure 4) demonstrating not only the idea of entanglement but also the idea that the same fragment can be viewed multiple times and will have a different affect in each juxtapositional context. In the Lori Hager microhistory, the burial is seen from the point of view of the human remains specialist who excavated it; in the Dido microhistory it provides the archaeological introduction to the life-history of this mature woman; in the Burials in Building 3 microhistory this fragment is juxtaposed with other burials before and after F.634, providing Dido's context among the residents of Building 3 as a household. ...

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