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GHF Çatalhöyük Director Continues Historic Study of 9,500-Year-Old Settlement

September 14, 2011

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On the Konya Plain in southern Anatolia lies one of the world’s most fascinating places: Çatalhöyük, the largest and best preserved Neolithic site found to date. So far, it has revealed the world’s earliest extensive mural art—remarkable narratives that show bulls and other animals being hunted by people wearing leopard skins, vultures taking the flesh from headless corpses—and many experts see it as crucial to understanding the origin of civilization in Turkey and the Middle East.

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