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« Reply #60 on: May 28, 2008, 01:20:29 pm »









One section of the dig house serves as the visitor center. Small but imaginatively laid-out, it has a number of sign-boards with photographs of excavators asking themselves, through comic-strip style thought bubbles, questions about the site --

"How did they make the mud bricks?"

"How many people lived in this building?"

or

"What did the murals mean?"



It's great for kids -- as is the audio-visual display which gives lots of background information about
this incredible site. There are recreations of wall paintings, copies of some of the figurines found on site -- notably that of a seated mother goddess (the actual figure, along with most of the other finds, is in the Ankara Museum).

The site has become something of a draw for contemporary followers of the mother goddess and
neo-feminists who see Neolithic Çatalhöyük as a place where women were at least the equals of,
if not superior, to men. This has yet to be proven, but the ongoing work at the site

                               (and in university research departments around the globe)

may eventually come up with some definitive answers as to the social structure of this Neolithic "city."
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