About 9,000 years ago, the settlement was an egalitarian, matrilineal society with no evidence of organised violence.

Girls, including infants, were buried with far more grave goods than boys, in some cases as much as fivefold more.

The theme for an exhibition that opened on June 4, 2026, at Ankara University’s Faculty of Political Science (Mülkiye), World’s First City Plan/Map, as ...

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 ...