Book Reviews F 405 clay on drainage and agriculture but does not elaborate on how this clay removal is evidence for the Anthro- pocene, where ongoing architectural construction and maintenance was having direct and long-term impacts on regional environmental degradation. The size of the Çatalhöyük research team can some- times sufer due to the sheer number of specialists studying in isolation—scholars with their microspecial- izations focusing on one small piece of a giant puzzle. Further, as the research team grew and the excavations developed, ideas changed as new data came to light, a process that will continue to occur. Nevertheless, Doherty weaves together the clay-based materials into a cohesive understanding of people and their natural environment. The Clay World of Çatalhöyük presents an integrated and holistic study of clay artefacts that provides original new insights on color, colluvium, and non-local clay at Çatalhöyük. Works Cited Charles, Mike, et al., “Landscape and Taskcape at Çatal- höyük: An Integrated Perspective,” in Integrating Çatal- höyük: Themes from the 2000–2008 Seasons, ed. Ian Hod- der (Ankara, 2014), 129–62. Doherty, Chris, “Sourcing Çatalhöyük’s Clays,” in Substan- tive Technologies at Çatalhöyük. Reports from 2000–2008 Seasons, ed. Ian Hodder (Ankara, 2013), 51–66. Filipović, Dragana, An Archaeobotanical Investigation of Plant Use, Crop Husbandry and Animal Diet at Early- mid Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia (Ph.D. diss., University of Oxford, 2012). Hodder, Ian, The Leopard’s Tale (London, 2006). Ingold, Timothy, “Temporality of the Landscape,” World Archaeology 25/2 (1993): 152–74. Mellart, James, Çatal Hüyük, a neolithic town in Anatolia (New York, 1967). Roberts, N. et al., “Chronology and Stratigraphy of later Quaternary Sediments in Konya Basin, Turkey,” Quater- nary Science Reviews 18/4–5 (1999): 611–30. Rosen, Arlene, and Neil Roberts, “The Nature of Çatal- höyük People and their Changing Environment on the Konya Plain,” in Çatalhöyük Perspectives. Themes from the 1995–1999 Seasons, ed. Ian Hodder (Ankara, 2005), 39– 53. Tung, Burcu, Making Place, Doing Tradition. Exploring the Intimate Knowledge at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Ph.D. diss., University California at Berkeley, 2008). Der Palast in Nuzi: Studien zur formalen Struktur des Palastgebäudes und den Funktionen der Palastinstitu- tion. By Hannah Mönninghof. Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 18. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020. Pp. xvii + 479. €178 (cloth). Reviewed by Ivana Puljiz, University of Freiburg The Late Bronze Age palace of Nuzi and the fnds dis- covered in it have been the subject of archaeological and philological research for almost a hundred years. Fieldwork at Nuzi, modern Yorgan Tepe, in the Kirkuk Plain of present-day Iraq began in 1925 and was com- pleted in 1931. The large-scale excavations revealed a coherent settlement plan in Stratum II. Dating to the fourteenth century bc, Stratum II falls within the period of Mittani suzerainty over the kingdom of Arrapha, to which the town of Nuzi belonged. The Stratum II palace of Nuzi, which is the focus of the reviewed book, is located in the center of this Mittani period settlement, in the upper town. Until now, the two-volume publication by Richard F. S. Starr (1937/1939) has been the basic archaeo- logical reference for the palace of Stratum II (and it is discussed throughout the reviewed work). In her book Der Palast in Nuzi, the publication of her doctoral the- sis, Hannah Mönninghof aims to reexamine and re- evaluate the results of the palace’s excavations. To this end, the author sets two goals: frst, to present all the fnds and features belonging to Stratum II of Nuzi, and second, to analyze the structure and functions of the palace of Nuzi in its last phase of use and in the context of the settlement (p. xvi). The volume is divided into eight chapters. These are preceded by a legend of the pictogram font used for visualization (pp. xii–xiii), a glossary of terms used (pp. xiv–xv) and a short introduction (pp. xvi–xvii). The text is followed by fve appendices (see below), as well three foldable tables in a pocket. In Chapter 1, the author describes the organization and documentation of the excavations at Nuzi, the ar- chaeological research history of the residential quarters on the upper town of the site, and the research history of the textual evidence from Nuzi (pp. 1–16). The chapter also includes a summary of the stratigraphy and occupational sequence of Nuzi based on Starr’s (1937/1939) fnal publication (pp. 6–10). The discus- sion of Stratum II is very short. The author mentions