ABSTRACT
Assembling the diverse bodies of data collected over the twenty years of excavation at Catalhoyuk has required an equivalent assemblage of researchers representing wide-ranging disciplinary traditions. This chapter analyses the structure of the social network, in order to investigate how groups form within the group of researchers at Catalhoyuk and suggests how data and interpretations move through the project. It shows topic modelling, which was applied to the corpus of archive reports, as well as diaries, to identify the presence and movement of ideas and languages through the network of humans and texts that enable the production of knowledge at Catalhoyuk. The chapter emphasizes the dynamic nature of the research network at Catalhoyuk through time, recognizing that it is constantly shifting and that these constant changes have an evident impact on how archaeologists draw conclusions from the data gathered.
