Ruth Tringham

Ruth Tringham
Affiliated Faculty emeriti
Research Website: 
Ruth Tringham website
Teaching Website: 
Center for Digital Archaeology

I received my Ph.D. in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, with sojourns at Charles University, Prague and the (then) University of Leningrad, USSR. I came to the US as a _drained brain_, hired by Harvard University who did not give me tenure. But I found tenure and happiness at the University of California at Berkeley where I am currently Professor of Anthropology.

Region(s): 
Balkans, Anatolia
Research Theme(s): 
Neolithic

Remixing Çatalhöyük

Project: Remixing Çatalhöyük

Located in central Turkey, Çatalhöyük (”cha-tal-hu-yuk”) is the site of a Neolithic farming community that flourished from 9,400 until 7,700 years ago. The website is a production of Berkeley Archaeologists at Çatalhöyük (BACH), directed by Ruth Tringham a professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.