ABSTRACT
Research at the nine thousand year old Neolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk in central Turkey has pioneered the implementation of a reflexive approach to archaeological practice, known as post-processual archaeology, in which information is permanently open to re-interpretation by both scholars and the public. This chapter focuses on how technological advances have been incorporated into the digital data management at Catalhoyuk with the ultimate goal to support an inter-disciplinary process of assembling data into arguments on the basis of multiple lines of evidence. It describes the database infrastructure at Catalhoyuk and how it currently supports reflective practice. The chapter also describes an interactive archive, components of a web application and a radically re-designed data store that are currently developing in collaboration with Hodder. This 'living archive' leverages recent technological innovations in geo-visualization and Linked Open Data (LOP) to support long-term, collaborative, multivocal knowledge creation.
