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Under Turkish
law, it is encouraged that as little material as possible
leaves Turkey. Thus an integral part of the excavation is
the research carried out in the laboratories of the compound
at the base of the mound. These areas include flotation
analysis, laboratories for faunal, lithic,
human bone and other artifact
analysis as well as exploratory palaeoethnobotanical
and micromorphological analysis.
The analysis of
samples and artifacts is carried out by teams of specialists
who crosscut the independent excavation teams. In general
they are full time in the laboratory during the excavation
period but continue post-excavation analysis
in their home institutions.
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While excavation
is proceeding, immediate feedback from specialists on analyzed
samples is possible by identifying priority units amongst
the samples. Priorities are identified by consensus of specialists
and those excavating (some of whom may be "specialists")
after discussion at the actual locus of the sample. Such
tours of the site to identify priority samples are carried
out every two days. The result is very fast feedback on certain
important contexts as well as important discussions by all
archaeologists concerned with the different kinds of interpretation
of the feature.
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