An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization was published in 2006. It is a "biographical" account of Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic archaeological site in Turkey, and its history of investigation: the discovery and first excavations at the site by James Mellaart in the 1960s, and the project directed by Ian Hodder that was ongoing at the time the book was written. The book received positive reviews in both popular magazines and academic journals. Sexual harassment Since leaving Science, Balter has worked as a freelance journalist. He writes about sexual harassment and the Me Too movement in science, often self-publishing these stories on his blog. He has also written for Scientific American, Audubon, and The Verge. In 2019, he wrote about allegations of misconduct by French paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin, leading to a boycott of the annual conference of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, of which Hublin is the president. In 2020, he was sued for defamation by UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Danielle Kurin, after Balter reported allegations of sexual harassment against her and her partner, Enmanuel Gomez Choque. Balter was ejected from the 2019 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) after he attempted to remove David Yesner, a former archaeology professor who had been dismissed from the University of Alaska Anchorage for "decades of sexual misconduct", from the conference venue. Balter had traveled to the meeting to appear on a panel on the Me Too movement in archaeology. The SAA was strongly criticized for its handling of the incident. National Association of Science Writers Resignation Balter resigned from the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) in April 2021, following a misconduct complaint submitted against him by eleven other members of the organization. He had been a member of the NASW since 1986. Following his resignation, he claimed that the due process of the NASW's investigation had been compromised and he denied the misconduct charges against him. Selected publications References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Alaska American science journalists