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« on: August 20, 2007, 09:16:02 am »

                                   





But is this impression factual? Is it true ? It is, of course, an interpretation based on archeological evidence, one that some well-informed people believe to be possibly true. But who gathered that archeological evidence, and who read it? Might other methods of excavation, reconstruction or display argue for other interpretations? Today, what is firing imaginations is not so much Çatalhöyük's remarkable artifacts themselves but the question how archeology itself might use new methods to approach some of the oldest questions about human history: When did settled life begin, and why? Where did art begin? What about religion?

TRAVELING SOUTH from Ankara, we watch the arid brown and yellow of the Konya Plain gradually give way to fields of wheat and occasional acres of beets and watermelons, their thirst slaked by spanking new concrete aqueducts slicing up the flatness. Konya is the closest city to Çatalhöyük, and a 35-minute bus ride away lies the village of Çumra; from there we take a taxi to the site.

Çatalhöyük—the name means "fork mound" in Turkish, and may have to do with the fact that it's really two mounds separated by a watercourse—rises 21 meters (65') above the surrounding farmland. Its 20 hectares (50 ac) rise from a vast silty fan, the remains of a glacial lake formed by the waters of retreating ice sheets at the end of the last ice age. Some 8500 years ago, between 5000 and 10,000 people lived here in a city of flat-roofed mud-brick houses that were so tightly packed together that there were neither streets nor front doors. To get in and out of the houses, people climbed an indoor ladder to the roof of their house, walked across their neighbors' roofs and then climbed down another ladder through roof-holes that did double duty as smoke vents. Intriguingly, all of these roof "entrances" appear to have been located alongside the south walls of the houses.
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