Çatalhöyük

Official website: http://www.catalhoyuk.com/

Flickr feed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/catalhoyuk/

A book – The Leopard’s Tale – by lead archaeologist Ian Hodder came out earlier this year.

This article has photos and sketches of some amazing art, and the research continues to ask questions about relationships among the rise of urbanization, domestication and civilization.

(as of 2005)

5-8,000 people settled in one place must have been amazing at the time.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk