# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-mellaart
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:03:54.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-mellaart"
name: "James Mellaart"
slug: "james-mellaart"
description: "James Mellaart FBA was a British and Dutch archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was expelled from Turkey when he was suspected of involvement with the antiquities black market."
tagline: "Dutch-British archaeologist (1925–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_British_archaeologist_James_Mellaart_in_the_middle_smoking_a_cigarette.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-11-14"
deathDate: "2012-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump