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Notes on James Mellaart

Genius or fraud, academic or black marketer, Mellaart is the most controversial archaeologist of the 20th century. Credited by some with discovering the oldest known city in the world James Mellaart was also expelled from Turkey in a scandal that rocked the archeology world and was accused of academic fraud in the Mother Goddess foolishness.
Mellaart is retired from teaching at the University of London, and he lives with his wife Arlette, in north London.
Archeologist noted for his work at Catel Huyak in Turkey.
Accused of black market activity and expelled from Turkey.
Was deeply involved in the Mother goddess in Anatolia controversy and was believed by many to have made up stories and then passed them off as true. The problem is that much of what he wrote is deemed to be true but some work casts doubt on all.
Mellaart, James, Belkis Balpinar and Udo Hirsch, The Goddess from Anatolia, Milan, 1989. Four volumes.
Mellaart, James. The Neolithic Of the Near East. Thames & Hudson 1975
Mellaart, James. The Neolithic Of the Near East. Scribners, 1975.
Mellaart, James. Earliest Civilizations Of The Near East. Thames-Hudson 1965.
Mellaart, James Beycesultan Set of 4 Volumes. British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara 1962-1995
Lloyd, Seton, and Mellaart, James. Beycesultan I: The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Levels (London 1962).
Lloyd,Seton, & Mellaart, James. Beycesultan: vol. II, Middle Bronze Age Architecture and Pottery. London, 1965.
Mellaart, James. and Murray, Beycesultan 3.2: Late Bronze Age and Phrygian Pottery and Middle and Late Bronze Age Small Objects (A. Sagona)
Mellaart, James. "Anatolian Chronology in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages," AS 7(1957) 55-88.
Mellaart, James. "Notes on the Architectural Remains of Troy I and II," AS 9(1959) 131-162.
Mellaart, James. "Anatolia and the Balkans," Antiquity 34(1960) 270-278.
Mellaart, James. The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Ages in the Near East and Anatolia (Beirut 1966).
Mellaart, James. "Prehistory of Anatolia and its Relations with the Balkans," Studia Balcanica V: L'ethnogenèse des peuples balkaniques (Sofia 1971).
Helbaek, Hans. 1970 The Plant Husbandry of Hacilar. In Excavations at Hacilar, J. Mellaart. Pp. 189-244. Edinburgh.
1992 Annual Progress report
The Goddess from Anatolia: An Updated View of the Catal Huyuk Controversy. by Marla Mallett.
A Weaver's View of the Catal Huyuk Controversy, by Marla Mallett
Fairy Tale An Untrue Story, Fairy Photographs, Piltdown Man, and Faked Vermeer Paintings, The Debunking of Three Hoaxes, by James Opie
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The Savfet Pasha Yali in Kanlica

By Arlette Mellaart
After years of neglect, the Savfet Pasha Yali became a much-loved, if leaky, home filled with the sound of classical music. Arlette Mellaart, who went to live there ar fifteen, recalls three happy decades spent in this fragile bohemian setting: her stepfather's haughty mother, the cats and the rats, the bustling Bosphorus, the parties, the wartime intrigues, and married life - all to the accompaniment of her mother's piano-playing.

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