Sonya Atalay

TL;DR: Archaeology includes the study of artifacts and other aspects of material culture but is more importantly about people-understanding people's daily lives, their sense of place in the world, the food they ate, their art, their spirituality, and their political and social organization as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, Atalay outlines the principles of community-based participatory research and demonstrates how CBPR can be effectively applied to archaeology and provides theoretical discussions along with practical examples of establishing and developing collaborative relationships and sharing results.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the daily practices of food preparation and consumption at the Neolithic Anatolian site of Catalhoyuk and present the major food activities suggested from archaeological evidence, including the timing and range of possible ingredients eaten by the residents of this thousand-year settlement.

TL;DR: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) as discussed by the authors provides a methodology for engaging descendent and local communities as partners in archaeological research, and demonstrates a collaborative model that involves reciprocity, is action based and aims to build community capacity while engaging communities in the process of archaeological research and heritage management.