ABSTRACT
Within archaeology, the term 'assemblage' has a long and central history, though it has perhaps not been theorized as much as other terms. The notion that artefacts are associated together in assemblages within contexts has always been the key that separates archaeology from antiquarianism. Assemblage is thus a building block of archaeological method and theory that allows us to gauge the date, function, type, meaning of objects. The twenty years of research conducted by the current project at Catalhoyuk allow investigations into how archaeologists assemble arguments by moving between different types of data. To explore whether the notions of assemblage apply to the research conducted at Catalhoyuk, the project's working practices need to be explained. New more intensive coring work, however, has suggested that Catalhoyuk was situated in an undulating and diverse environment, in a marl hollow rather than on a local rise in topography.
