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	Catalhoyuk
		An activity to introduce Catalhoyuk to travel agencies is planned for the summer of 2005.
		Scholars interested in the Goddess will come together with the members of Catalhoyuk team at a conference to be organized during the summer of 2005.
		In 2002, Tuluyhan Ugurlu, made the initial performance of his composition entitled Catalhoyuk at Bogazici University.
	www.catalhoyuk.org (371 words)

	Why live together? \| The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I had barely heard of Catalhoyuk, Michael Balter's subject, a Neolithic village that was inhabited for roughly 1000 years.
		As interesting as is Balter's attempt to understand and describe the lives of those who originally lived at Catalhoyuk-as many as 8000 at once!-I also enjoyed the parallel tale about the archaeologists from around the world who have devoted years of their lives to excavating the 9500-year-old village.
		Catalhoyuk was the world's first real town, with the first lavish widespread art, and the first of many other things.
	www.very-clever.com /information/diekhekqdz (2639 words)

	Articles
		Catalhoyuk consists of two mounds dating to the Neolithic ages (around the time when the Flintstones lived in Bedrock !) located in Central Anatolia one kilometre south of Kucukkoy, twelve kilometres north of the Cumra district and 54 kilometers due southeast from the provincial centre of Konya.
		James Mellaart, David French and their colleagues discovered the site of Catalhoyuk, south of Ankara, the Turkish capital, in November, 1958, but they were not able to start excavation until 1961, carrying on with the work until 1965, at which time the site was put under the protection of the Turkish government.
		Mellaart was to later become the Assistant Director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara from 1962-1963, and lecturer at the Anatolian Institute of Archaeology, University of London, between 1964-1991.
	www.mash.org.au /articles/articles2.htm (2179 words)

	Masterpieces of Turkey: Catalhoyuk, Treasures of Catalhoyuk
		The findings from Catalhoyuk dated back to seven and eight thousand years before Christ, and this ten thousand year old civilization had left houses, temples, palaces, food, statues which they had worshipped, ornaments, bowls and weapons.
		During the years of the Catalhoyuk excavations I followed the studies closely as Director of Konya Museum.
		But to cut a long story short the Catalhoyuk excavations went on until 1965, and the findings were exhabited in the main rooms of the Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, making up a nine and ten thousand year old treasury.
	www.istanbulportal.com /istanbulportal/Catalhoyuk.aspx (1296 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Goddess and the Bull: Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of ...
		When he began visiting the 9500-year-old Turkish village of Catalhoyuk in 1998 as a reporter for the journal Science, Balter was designated "biographer" of the dig by the team working there.
		While the author is no sensationalist, it's impossible not to feel a shiver when he describes Catalhoyuk's trove of artwork: the obsidian mirrors, the wall paintings of leopards, bulls, vultures, and goddesses (the last suggesting a matriarchal society).
		At its height around 7000 BC Catalhoyuk, on the Konya plain in Turkey, was home to as many 8,000 people, the largest gathering of human beings in one place up until then.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=d978MTr95A&isbn=0743243609&itm=2 (823 words)

	Antiquity: Dance of the Cranes: Crane symbolism at Catalhoyuk and beyond.(Research)(excavations in Neolithic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Antiquity: Dance of the Cranes: Crane symbolism at Catalhoyuk and beyond.(Research)(excavations in Neolithic Turkey)(intepretation of the use of crane bones and cranes as depicted in prehistoric paintings)@ HighBeam Research
		Dance of the Cranes: Crane symbolism at Catalhoyuk and beyond.(Research)(excavations in Neolithic Turkey)(intepretation of the use of crane bones and cranes as depicted in prehistoric paintings)
		Bird symbolism at Catalhoyuk, for those familiar with the results of the 1960s excavations, is most likely to mean vultures.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:109023248&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (241 words)

	MM13 Feature - The Town Plan of Catalhoyuk
		This is the very dawn of human civilisation, and means that early Catalhoyuk would have been contemporaneous with the first agriculture and the first attempts at domesticating animals.
		It is evident that the Catalhoyuk map throws this neat chronology into a spin.
		The Catalhoyuk map is now the subject of considerable research by scholars, not only at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, but all round the world.
	www.gisuser.com.au /MM/content/2001/MM13/feature/MM13_feature.html (1478 words)

	Neolithic Turkey
		The Cayonu settlement which is not far from the city of Diyarbakir has been unearthed by the expedition teams under the leadership of Cambel, Braidwood, Mehmet Ozdogan, Wulf Schirmen and it is dated back to 7250-6750 BC.
		The Catalhoyuk settlement, on the 52 km southeast of Konya and north of the town of Cumra is, dated back to 6800-5000 BC and it is the most developed center of the Near East and the Aegean.
		There are no stone foundations in Catalhoyuk and all the houses carry flat roofs.
	www.turizm.net /turkey/history/neolithic.html (735 words)

	Science NetLinks: Artifacts 2: Artifacts in Context
		To expand on this idea, have students return to the Mysteries of Catalhoyuk exhibit from the Science Museum of Minnesota to read about the mystery of the Clay Balls.
		In this 8 1/2 minute video, Suponcic discusses the clay balls, the questions they raise, and some of the ideas that archaeologists have come up with to explain their existence and possible uses.
		Encourage students to be creative in coming up with their own explanations of the artifacts, and remind them that some questions will remain unanswered, as is the case in many archaeological digs.
	www.sciencenetlinks.com /Lessons.cfm?DocID=52 (1182 words)

	New Media Applications at Catalhoyuk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Digital technologies are now an integral part of the archaeological process, as shown by the switch from 35mm file to digital cameras to record not only what the archeologist digs up but also the process of excavation, discourse and interpretation.
		One of these explorations comprises collecting videographic data on how a multisensorial sense of place is captured in modern-day Catalhoyuk by the very diverse population that works there and visits the site daily.
		The second exploration in New Media and archaeology that is closely related to the first is verging on performance art and archaeology.
	ls.berkeley.edu /departments/townsend/groupapp5.shtml (286 words)

	Discover: A Tale of two obsessed archeologists, one ancient city, and nagging doubts about whether science can ever ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At Catalhoyuk he is getting a chance to rewrite Mellaart's story--and to put his postmodern theories into practice.
		What Mellaart had found at Catalhoyuk were the oldest paintings from the Neolithic, the oldest paintings made by humans on the walls of houses they had built themselves.
		Under the volcano, the artist had painted a strange pattern of rectangles that could be taken for the terraced town of Catalhoyuk itself.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1511/is_5_20/ai_54432963 (1525 words)

	The Seeds Of Civilization (Catalhoyuk)
		Since researchers first began digging at Catalhoyuk (pronounced "Chah-tahl-hew-yook") in the 1960s, they've found more than 400 skeletons under the houses, which are clustered in a honeycomb-like maze.
		Burying the dead under houses was common at early agricultural villages in the Near East-at Catalhoyuk, one dwelling alone had 64 skeletons.
		In the millennia before Catalhoyuk's flowering, most of the Near East was occupied by nomads who hunted gazelle, sheep, goats and cattle, and gathered wild grasses, cereals, nuts and fruits.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1397316/posts (2278 words)

	What kind of clothes did women in Catalhoyuk wear? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		We know that the people of Catalhoyuk had access to animal skins, and that they wore beads and body paint.
		Although leopard skin clothes are shown in the Catalhoyuk art, no leopard bones have been found at the site, so we cannot prove that leopard skin was ever worn.
		As Catalhoyuk was situated on a river, there was plenty of water for drinking, cooking and washing.
	www.digonsite.com /drdig/neareast/30.html (119 words)

	Sciotecha: Excavated Catalhoyuk houses protected from wear
		The houses founded in Catalhoyuk, central Turkey -- one of the most ancient settlement areas in the world, have been covered with a roof for protection.
		After the Catalhoyuk Research Project's tenth year was completed, Culture and Tourism General Director Nadir Avci visited the excavation site and obtained information from Standford University Archeology Professor responsible for excavation Ian Hodder.
		Afterwards, Avci opened 20 houses excavated in southern Catalhoyuk, saying that it was necessary to take protective measures since they were trying to preserve the finds after excavating.
	www.frimlin.com /links/2003/08/excavated-catalhoyuk-houses-protected.php (156 words)

	Archaeology tours Turkey, Neolithic to Ottoman sites
		Catalhoyuk (pronounced chattal-who-yook), the most highly developed Neolithic centre in the Near East and the Aegean world, is located 52km SE of Konya.
		Among the foundations is the remains of a one beautifully tiled wall, but the tiles are melted because of the heat of the fire.
		Its similarities with Catalhoyuk suggest a cultural link; homes were entered via the roof and the people buried their dead under the floors of their living rooms.
	www.asianturkey.com /ArchaeologyTour.htm (3688 words)

	Catalhoyuk Teacher's / Parent's Guide
		Students will, in cooperative groups, create a large poster of their special cultural-index findings in their Catalhoyuk readings, and show them in their group poster, through illustrations, symbols, or descriptions, and will include a title of their culture index on their poster, with a definition of what their culture index involves.
		Tell students that Catalhoyuk is an excellent example showing us how Early Man developed from a Hunter Gatherer society to a culture which had learned to domesticate plants and animals.
		A drawing about Catalhoyuk, and a sentence that describes why they chose that illustration to be an example of the culture.
	www.digonsite.com /grownups/TGCatalhoyuk.html (2108 words)

	Scoop: Mazur: Getting To The Bottom Of The Dorak Affair
		Catalhoyuk's man-made walls revealed murals of what Mellaart interpreted as goddesses giving birth to bulls and other hunt-fertility symbols.
		"Catalhoyuk was also a sort of cathedral to the bull and the first evidence we have of the domestication of cattle," writer Michael Rice told me by phone from Britain.
		David French was a co-discoverer of Catalhoyuk with Mellaart, which Mellaart acknowledges in his conversation with Pearson and Conner on the Bosphorus: "It was about four in the afternoon.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0508/S00224.htm (3964 words)

	Goddess in Anatolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The first excavation of Catalhoyuk provided a picture of life in the early Neolithic that challenged the established beliefs regarding the origins of civilization and culture.
		The post-processualists may be broadening the focus of archaeology, but the Cambridge team seems to operate from a narrow patriarchal perspective that does not value the feminine equally with the masculine.
		After 30 years of silence, the Catalhoyuk mounds are being plumbed for their secrets once again, Mellaart's intuition replaced by Hodder's state-of-the-art science and multi-discipline, multi-interpretation approach.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /goddess_in_Anatolia.htm (2120 words)

	Powell's Books - The Goddess and the Bull: Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization by Michael ...
		Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt and the Trojan War was fought, a great civilization arose on the Anatolian plains.
		A veteran "Science" magazine reporter takes readers inside the trenches of Catalhoyuk--an archaeological excavation that has astounded the world with findings that show it to be the origin of modern society.
		Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=27576&cgi=product&isbn=0743243609 (345 words)

	books about: catalhoyuk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Socialization and feasting at Catalhoyuk: a response to Adams.(Ron Adams) : An article from: American...
		Inhabiting Catalhoyuk: Reports from the 1995-99 Seasons (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara...
		The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to...
	www.this-is-great.com /books/catalhoyuk (707 words)

	Çatalhüyük, Catalhoyüuk, Çatalhöyük, Konya, Mevlana, Turkey-Adiyamanli.org
		The land is a wide plateau and has been continuously inhabited even extending back to the 8th millenium BC.
		Catalhoyuk is an ancient city of that period which is considered to be one of the first settlement areas in the world
		Made up of mud houses, which were entered through holes in the roofs, this site is a real place of interest where you can feel the life prevailing, many years ago.
	www.adiyamanli.org /konya.html (1543 words)

	Amazon.com: The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The story begins with James Mellaart's discovery of the mound at Catalhoyuk and the stunning realization that it was Neolithic (New Stone Age) from top to bottom--to use Mellaart's phrase, no "filthy Roman muck" cluttered this site.
		Balter describes the excavation of the site in the 1960s, the excitement about the discovery of "Goddess" figurines, Mellaart's expulsion from Turkey in the aftermath of the mysterious Dorak Affair, and the long hiatus between Mellaart's departure in 1965 and the arrival of Ian Hodding's team in 1993.
		Still, half the pleasure is in the journey, and Balter has done an excellent job of describing a journey that is truly marvelous.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743243609?v=glance (3943 words)

	Radical Goddess Thealogy: FLASH! New Goddess Figurine Discovered
		There are full breasts on which the hands rest, and the stomach is extended in the central part….
		The figurine can be interpreted in a number of ways - as a woman turning into an ancestor, as a woman associated with death, or as death and life conjoined.
		She's so haunting do you think she could be the goddess of life and death.I just hope this time they come out and admit what they've got.
	godmotherascending.blogspot.com /2005/11/flash-new-goddess-figurine-discovered.html (956 words)

	[No title]
		All of the answers to the questions may be found by exploring the different parts of the site.
		PEOPLE AND PROCESSES section (Answers in this section do not need to be in complete sentences.) Name 5-8 different types of categories in which people working on the site should be trained.
		ARTIFACTS section Name 5 categories of artifacts that have been found at Catalhoyuk.
	www.berkeleyprep.org /faculty/herb_catherine/wksinprog/ARCHAEOLOGY.doc (289 words)

	The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization,Books,Cheap Discount ...
		Along the way, Balter describes the cutting-edge advances in archaeological science that have allowed the team at Çatalhöyük to illuminate the central questions of human existence.
		The many female figurines were thought by the site's first excavator, James Mellaart, to be representations of the Mother Goddess, a popular deity in historic times in Anatolia; bull figures and paintings seem to foreshadow...
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	www.uscurrencyauctions.com /ItemId/0743243609 (854 words)

	Simulation Dig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Click on each artifact to learn more about the object and what archaeologists have learned about the people of Catalhoyuk by studying it.
		Read the description of the clay balls and the archaeologist's ideas about how they were used by the people of Catalhoyuk.
		Be creative in coming up with your own explanations of the artifacts, and remember that some questions will remain unanswered, as is the case in many archaeological digs.
	teachers.eusd.k12.ca.us /jleff/SocialStudies/MysteriesOfCatalhoyuk.htm (698 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Goddess And The Bull, though, is a brilliant history of the digs-and the diggers-at one of the oldest cities in the world which also happens to be one of the oldest archeological sites in the world: Catalhoyuk (pronounced Shah-tell-hoy-yook).
		It was at this site on the Anatolian plain that this 9500-year-old centre produced the oldest mirrors thus found, as well as some of the earliest examples of human self-awareness such as visual art and, amazingly, urban planning-no straw-chewing yokels here.
		He is especially good in telling the tale of James Mellaart who discovered Catalhoyuk in 1958.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743243609 (607 words)

	Ian Hodder - CIRS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Project Director of the Catalhoyuk archaeological research and excavation efforts in Turkey.
		His future work will further examine the processes by which people construct an object world which in turn comes to construct their own identities and understandings of the world.
		Hodder has been conducting the excavation of the 9000 year-old Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk in central Turkey to explore the effects of antipositivistic approaches on method in archaeology.
	www.cirs.net /investigadores/AnthropologyArchaeology/HODDER.htm (162 words)

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