Posted on 06/24/2019 6:40:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Scientists studying the ancient ruins of Çatalhöyük, in modern Turkey, found that its inhabitants - 3,500 to 8,000 people at its peak - experienced overcrowding, infectious diseases, violence and environmental problems...
Çatalhöyük, in what is now south-central Turkey, was inhabited from about 7100 to 5950 B.C. First excavated in 1958, the site measures 13 hectares (about 32 acres) with nearly 21 meters of deposits spanning 1,150 years of continuous occupation...
Çatalhöyük began as a small settlement about 7100 B.C., likely consisting of a few mud-brick houses in what researchers call the Early period. It grew to its peak in the Middle period of 6700 to 6500 B.C., before the population declined rapidly in the Late period. Çatalhöyük was abandoned about 5950 BC...
During its peak in population, houses were built like apartments with no space between them - residents came and left through ladders to the roofs of the houses...
In a sample of 93 skulls from Çatalhöyük, more than one-fourth - 25 individuals - showed evidence of healed fractures. And 12 of them had been victimized more than once, with two to five injuries over a period of time. The shape of the lesions suggested that blows to the head from hard, round objects caused them - and clay balls of the right size and shape were also found at the site.
More than half of the victims were women (13 women, 10 men). And most of the injuries were on the top or back of their heads, suggesting the victims were not facing their assailants when struck.
(Excerpt) Read more at popular-archaeology.com ...
The orignal name was "Bedrock".
“...More than half of the victims were women (13 women, 10 men). And most of the injuries were on the top or back of their heads, suggesting the victims were not facing their assailants when struck....”
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Hmmm..... looks like they had “Yutes” back then also.
Good Gravy! Betty is nowhere close to Bam-Bam and Barney! It’s like she’s standing outside of the car!
That place has long been a mystery to me. Their artwork, burial practices etc. Can’t figure out why they were there. Obsessed with death or maybe just dead bodies. They buried their dead inside the houses, under their sitting places, it was like some weird mausoleum. Creepy people. I wonder what their DNA was? Originally from where?
9,000 years ago, the earth was “formless and void.”
There was a sort of temple district apparently, which just wound up being the first area excavated -- although, Mellaart was principal excavator there, and he was a fantasy merchant.
...residents came and left through ladders to the roofs of the houses...
I think they just fell off the ladders a lot.
It's a place right out of his-to-ree.
Bkmrk
life in the city just like today.
The original shit hole.
Did they have poop hieroglyphics on papyrus maps?
As long as the women walked around topless then I am good.
:^)
No mobile phones.
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