[blam]

GGG Ping.

[dirtboy]

“We also found more than 60 human skeletons in mud brick houses built side by side. The inhabitants of that period buried the dead underneath the house with a sense of being close to their ancestors. In other words, Çatalhöyük inhabitants were born, died and buried in these houses.

Dang, and here I though a dead groundhog under the porch smelled bad...

[Billthedrill]

Anybody know a rhyme for "Çatalhöyük"? I wanna write a limerick...

[Publius]

Fäšçìñåţĩňğ.

[raygun]

In my Western Civ class, I told the instructor (Phd) I was interested to know more about the complex cult that appeared at Catal Huyk in Anatolia involving female statues, leopards, vultures as well as rams and bulls.

She just shuddered, and asked why in the world I'd be interested in that. She said it was a pretty dark, bleak and ugly culture, there was nothing interesting about it at all. She said that culture put the Minoans to shame with respect to their barbarous and depraved rituals. It was quite clear she despised them, and frankly stated they had no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

In any case she cited the following quitessential reference works on the culture:

Excavations at Catal Huyuk, by James Mellaart is the single most important scholar in this area of research.

Catal Huyuk: A Neolithic Town in Anatolia, McGraw Hill, 1967

Earliest Civilizations of the Near East, McGraw Hill, 1965

[ASA Vet]

Click on the photo.

9,000 years ago, this place was home to one of the world's largest settlements! At a time when most of the world's people were nomadic hunter-gatherers, Çatalhöyük was a bustling town of as many as 10,000 people.

[Just mythoughts]

Very interesting.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. That Catalhuyukians came from somewhere else, perhaps the now-submerged continental shelf.

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[muleskinner]

Catal Huyuk is Turkish for Cthulhu. The etymological relationship is obvious, not to mention the cultural similarities. The evil minions have disguised the true object of adoration very well indeed.

[MadLibDisease]

Mark

[Larry Lucido]

A total of 130 houses have been unearthed to date during excavations at the 9,000-year-old site of Çatalhöyük in Konya's Çumra district

Authorities believe the civilization became extinct due to excessive mortgage payments for interest only loans and 120% second mortages. Messages signed "Ex-Çatalhöyükan" foretold of calamity and told Çatalhöyükans to "sell now!"

[mewzilla]

Ran across this today :)

www.catalhoyuk.com