Europe Seeks Its Origins In Catalhoyuk

The Anatolian Times ^ | 12-11-2006

[blam]

Europe Seeks Its Origins In Catalhoyuk

KONYA - Sociologist Jon T. Oplinger of the U.S. Maine University said that the data found in the archaeological site of Catalhoyuk could enlighten origins of Europe. In an exclusive interview with the A.A, Oplinger said that Prof. Dr. Waleck Dalpour and he wrote an article about communication and interaction among societies.

"In our article, we referred to the figures on earthenware pots which were unearthed during the excavations in Catalhoyuk. Those figures can shed light on our history," he said.

Highlighting importance of the findings regarding the development of genetic archaeology, Oplinger said that the data found in the archaeological site of Catalhoyuk could enlighten origins of Europe.

He said that the findings in Catalhoyuk were same with those found in southern Europe.

All these findings consolidated the thesis that European people migrated to the north via Anatolia, he added.

The neolithic site of Catalhoyuk was first discovered in the late 1950s and excavated by James Mellaart between 1961 and 1965. The site rapidly became famous internationally due to the large size and dense occupation of the settlement, as well as the spectacular wall paintings and other art that was uncovered inside the houses.

Since 1993 an international team of archaeologists, led by Ian Hodder, has been carrying out new excavations and research, in order to shed more light on the people that inhabited the site.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[wizr]

Ok. Thanks for more enlightenment. Never heard of this place, or the people. Any idea when and where we are reading about?

I know. Just Google it. Ok. If you say so.

[SunkenCiv]

:') The period of occupation was something like 3000 years, and it was finally abandoned about 7500 BC.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=catalhoyuk

[SunkenCiv]

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[Lady Jag]

Turkey

Çatalhöyük

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Excavations at the South Area of Çatal Höyük

Çatalhöyük /ʧɑtɑl højyk/ (also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without diacritics; çatal is Turkish for "fork", höyük for "mound") was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, dating from around 7500 BC for the lowest layers. It is perhaps the largest and most sophisticated Neolithic site yet uncovered.

Çatalhöyük is located overlooking wheatfields in the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day city of Konya, Turkey, approximately 140 km from the twin-coned volcano of Hasan Dağ The eastern settlement forms a mound which would have risen about 20 metres above the plain at the time of the latest Neolithic occupation. There is also a smaller settlement mound to the west and a Byzantine settlement a few hundred meters to the east. The prehistoric mound settlements were abandoned before the Bronze Age. A channel of the Çarsamba river once flowed between the two mounds, and the settlement was built on alluvial clay which may have been favourable for early agriculture.

[Alas Babylon!]

A! Aye-yi-yi!!!!!!!

Too many A's!!!!!

(What is this, Turkish?)

[Lady Jag]

I don't what happened. Word Wrap got turned off, too, ticking me off. Word Wrap could have been the cat, but I don't know about the AAAAA's.

[FMBass]

No offense, but you don’t type too good.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Why bother?

Europe has no future.

[Lady Jag]

No offense, but you don't assume too well.

[Lady Jag]

We should bother because it's important.

You're right about Europe, though. They've really messed themselves up.

[SunkenCiv]

The guys from Monty Python helped prepare that Wikipedia entry.

[SunkenCiv]

There is also a smaller settlement mound to the west

The original settlement was burned and abandoned; one suggestion (by Ryan and Pitman) is that the egress of people driven out from the flooding Black Sea basin resulted in a number of sudden destructions in Anatolia, as well as the construction of the big wall etc at Jericho. The smaller settlement was constructed (on the opposite bank of a river? Can't recall for sure) shortly after the burning (possibly as much or little as 50 years), and lasted less than a century.

[Lady Jag]

That bad, huh?

[Fred Nerks]

Careful. Could be just muzzie talk...ALL YOUR COUNTRIES ARE BELONG TO US!

[SunkenCiv]

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