Catalhoyuk, Turkiye – About an hour southeast of Konya lies one of the most exciting Neolithic finds of the 20th century – the densely populated settlement of Catalhoyuk. Occupied for 1,000 years from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Fresh analysis of ancient DNA from Catalhoyuk, the sprawling Neolithic site in present-day Turkiye often ...

An 8,600-year-old piece of bread has been found in a structure resembling an oven in Catalhoyuk, south-central Türkiye, one of the first places in the world where urban settlement has been recorded.

Unusual finds fuel new ideas about the impetus for one of the first long-term settlements (above, the site today). Catalhoyuk Research Project In 1993, dig leader Ian Hodder (above) resumed work at ...

A member of UNESCO’s World Heritage List, the 9,000-year-old prehistoric site at Catalhoyuk, central Turkey sheds light on the deep history of humanity. Home to some 8,000 people in the Neolithic age, ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons at Catalhoyuk, a Neolithic settlement in Turkey, suggests a matriarchal society where women were central figures. Maternal lineage shaped family organization, with women ...

The new study analyzed 131 skeletons dated to between 7100 and 5950 B.C.E. Murat Özsoy 1958 via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 When couples in Catalhoyuk, a Neolithic settlement in what is now ...

UNESCO World Heritage Committee has decided to add Turkey's Catalhoyuk Neolitic City on the World Heritage list at their meeting in Saint Petersburg, Russia on Sunday. World Heritage Committee is ...