These are some of the shelters that have been built in the last fifteen years at the 9000-year old site of Çatalhöyük. They are built to “protect” the excavated areas for future generations to view and gaze at the prehistoric remains. They are built on top of the prehistoric houses and act as “houses” for the current and future generations of archaeologists. They are called shelters which somehow denotes ephemerality but I think they create a permanent marker of NOW and the FUTURE. This is my expression of the statement: “With archaeology we stake our claim to the future by finding the past”
