A new study of volcanic rocks suggests that an ancient mural may indeed depict an erupting volcano, adding new weight to a theory that this image is a contender for the world's oldest known landscape ...

Catalhoyuk covered 26 acres, and its people — estimated to be as many as 10,000 — would have made a living by growing crops and herding domesticated animals. It was built on a marshy plain in central ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Archaeologists at Turkey's neolithic site of Catalhoyuk in central Anatolia have uncovered a "unique" complete female figurine, The Ministry of Culture and Tourism said on Tuesday. The statuette, ...

As far back as the 1960s, archaeologists had a feeling that Catalhoyuk was something special. And not just because the Neolithic settlement was one of the oldest continually inhabited places in the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare stone figurine of a woman at a dig in Turkey's central province of Konya. The woman, with her sagging breasts and belly, is thought to represent either a fertility ...

The Ascent of Woman confronts the unspoken suspicion that maybe the long-held second class status of women reflects a biological reality rather than social prejudice. To do that, the series had to do ...

In a recent study published in Science, researchers have uncovered genetic evidence suggesting that Catalhoyuk, one of the oldest and best-preserved Neolithic settlements located in southern Anatolia ...

Genetic analysis of bodies from a 9,000-year-old settlement has revealed clues pointing to unusual societal structures. As far back as the 1960s, archaeologists had a feeling that Catalhoyuk was ...