The most recent preliminary report on excavations at the early village-farming community site of Çayönü in SE Turkey covered the field season of 1972. What was learned in the next two seasons, 1978 and 1979, summarized here, supports a somewhat unhappy proposition. The more that exposures on a site are enlarged and deepened, the more that earlier suggestions and interpretations must be revised. This is unfortunate because the earlier suggestions have already passed on into secondary literature where they have become uneradicable fossils. Nonetheless, the game is worth playing if fullness of understanding is the hoped for goal. The two seasons' work summarized here were those when our German architectural colleagues joined in the effort, markedly increasing the expedition's potential for understanding the archaeological record of this early village community.