Çatalhöyük

reconstruction of a home

picture from on top of a mound looking a one of the dig sites

inside the bigger of 2 dig sites, visible are the many levels of the city

a home

in 7500 B.C., in south-central Anatolia this was the site of one of the first cities on earth. archeologists have found no evidence of official leaders or a class system, no evidence of violence or the need for weapons, and think that women at least held equal power in the society. (see more here, here, and here.)

driving through villages and melon fields, i tried to think of the land 10,000 years earlier. at the entrance, we waited for a guard to take us to the dig sites. walking up the mound, knowing that below me had been such a successfully egalitarian society was a great feeling.

thanks to Onur Ekdik for supplying the pictures since i forgot to take my camera.