Little excavation has been done for these levels, which represent the kârum's first habitation ( Mellaart 1957 ).

These careful figurines were found primarily in areas Mellaart believed to be shrines.

Though Wilamowitz-Moellendorff wrote them off as mythical, the results of archaeological excavations at Çatalhöyük by James Mellaart and Fritz Schachermeyr led them to conclude that the Pelasgians had migrated from Asia Minor to the Aegean basin in the 4th millennium BC.

To support the idea that neither men nor women dominated one another, Eisler cites archeological evidence from southeast Europe, especially Crete, drawing much from the research of Marija Gimbutas, James Mellaart, Nikolaos Platon, and Vere Gordon Childe.

The Goddess movement draws some of its inspiration from the work of such archaeologists as Marija Gimbutas ( Gimbutas 1974 and 1989, Mellaart 1967 ), whose interpretation of artifacts excavated from the region she called " Old Europe " points to societies of Neolithic Europe that were " matristic " or " goddess-centered ".

One, however – a stately goddess seated on a throne flanked by two female lions – was found in a grain bin, which Mellaart suggests might have been a means of ensuring the harvest or protecting the food supply.

James Mellaart, who led excavation at the site in the 1960s, suggests that the figures represent a Great goddess, who headed the pantheon of an essentially matriarchal culture.

James Mellaart, who excavated the site, believed that Çatalhöyük was the spiritual center of central Anatolia.

* J Mellaart, Anatolian Chronology in the Early and Middle Bronze Age, 1957, Anatolian Studies, vol. 7, pp. 55-88

The notion of a " woman-centered " society was developed by J. J. Bachofen, whose three-volume Myth, religion, and mother right ( 1861 ) impacted the way classicists such as Jane Harrison, Sir Arthur Evans, Walter Burkert, and James Mellaart looked at the evidence of matriarchal religion in pre-Hellenic societies.

James Mellaart ( November 14, 1925 – July 29, 2012 ) was a British archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey.

James Mellaart was born in 1925 in London.

In 1951 Mellaart began to direct excavations on the sites in Turkey with the assistance of his Turkish-born wife Arlette.

* 1957-1960: James Mellaart at Hacilar.

Suggested by James Mellaart to be older than the Pottery Neolithic of Byblos ( around 6400 cal.

* Mellaart, James, Catal Huyuk, McGraw-Hill, 1967.

It was in this year that a local teacher showed the mound to British archaeologist James Mellaart.

* Mellaart, James.

* November 14-James Mellaart, British archaeologist.

* Start of excavations at Çatalhöyük by James Mellaart.

The play is based on a true story and focuses on the Anglo-Dutch archaeologist James Mellaart.

Fortunately, the excavator left some features unexcavated, allowing a view of the original Assyrian construction.

Much of what has been written on the chronology, the occupational periods and the history of Qumran was based on the preliminary report and lecture written by the original excavator Roland de Vaux in 1961, which was translated in 1973.

Clark, the original excavator, believed the Mesolithic people would have lived on a brushwood platform on the edge of the former Lake Flixton.

His nude pose reflects that of the statuette itself, possibly indicating that the statue depicts the excavator imagining himself in the original statuette's pose.

Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.

According to Alan Ryan, the ideology of the original classical liberals argued against direct democracy, where law is made by majority vote by citizens, " for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law.

Although there is no mention of Doublespeak in Nineteen Eighty-Four, it has been argued that the term is a combination of two concepts-Doublethink and Newspeak which are original to his work.

Later, in his The Physiology of Fascination ( 1855 ), Braid conceded that his original terminology was misleading, and argued that the term " hypnotism " or " nervous sleep " should be reserved for the minority ( 10 %) of subjects who exhibit amnesia, substituting the term " monoideism ", meaning concentration upon a single idea, as a description for the more alert state experienced by the others.

" He later argued that the poem " is probably the most original poem about poetry in English, and the first hint outside his notebooks and letters that a major critic lies hidden in the twenty-five-year-old Coleridge.

He argued that this was a reward of natural happiness for natural virtue ; a reward of supernatural happiness for merely natural virtue would be inappropriate since, due to original sin, unbaptized children lack the necessary supernatural grace.

Others, including Dawkins himself, have argued that this usage of the term is the result of a misunderstanding of the original proposal.

Although these are generally considered inaccurate to the original mythologies on which they are based, it can be argued that as film itself has become a way transmitting myths, these films are no more inaccurate than the variants told by storytellers of the oral tradition.

Marbury had argued that the Constitution was only intended to set a floor for original jurisdiction that Congress could add to.

Furthermore, it has been argued that the Supreme Court should have been able to issue the writ on original jurisdiction based on the fact that Article III of the Constitution granted it the right to review on original jurisdiction " all cases affecting … public ministers and consuls ," and that James Madison, Secretary of State at the time and defendant of the suit, should have fallen into that category of a " public minister consul.

However, just how much of that success was due to the original Kurtzman template that he left for his successor, and how much should be credited to the Al Feldstein system and the depth of the post-Kurtzman talent pool, can be argued without resolution.

On the basis of evidence both internal and external to the text, it has been argued that this creed originated not as an editing by the First Council of Constantinople of the original Nicene Creed, but as an independent creed ( probably an older baptismal creed ) modified to make it more like the Nicene Creed of 325 and attributed to the Council of 381 only later.

On the contrary, he argued that the polygyny of the Fathers, which was tolerated by the Creator because of fertility, was a diversion from His original plan for human marriage.

Meanwhile George Sarton and Lynn Thorndike have both argued that scientific progress was perhaps less original than has traditionally been supposed.

However, SQL databases, including DB2, deviate from the relational model in many details ; Codd fiercely argued against deviations that compromise the original principles.

After analyzing essays from " the academic Left ", scientists argued that some of these critical writers were ignorant of the original scientific documents they were criticizing and, therefore, were making a series of nonsensical statements about the nature and intent of science.

Adolf von Harnack argued that Chrestians was the original wording, and that Tacitus deliberately used Christus immediately after it to show his own superior knowledge compared to the population at large.

Some scholars therefore believe that it is an interpolation, while others have argued that it is original.

Despite the outpouring of antagonistic replies to The Age of Reason, some scholars have argued that Constantin Volney's deistic The Ruins ( translations of excerpts from the French original appeared in radical papers such as Thomas Spence's Pig's Meat and Daniel Isaac Eaton's Politics for the People ) was actually more influential than The Age of Reason.

In the case of the Equal Rights Amendment, however, it was argued that since the original March 22, 1979, deadline was contained in only the resolving clause of the joint resolution proposing the amendment — rather than in the actual text of the amendment itself — that the deadline could be altered.

On the other hand, Democritus — the original atomist — argued that all things in the universe, including light, are composed of indivisible sub-components ( light being some form of solar atom ).

A. Pasqualini has argued that Saturn was related to Iuppiter Latiaris, as the original figure of this Jupiter was superseded on the Alban Mount, whereas it preserved its gruesome character in the ceremony held on the sanctuary of the Latiar Hill in Rome involving a human sacrifice ad the aspersion of the statue of the god with the blood of the victim.

A. Pasqualini has argued that Veiovis seems related to Iuppiter Latiaris, as the original figure of this Jupiter was superseded on the Alban Mount, whereas it preserved its gruesome character in the ceremony held on the sanctuary of the Latiar Hill ( the northernmost hilltop of the Quirinal ) in Rome, which involved a human sacrifice.