Catal Höyük was first discovered in the late 1950s but the digging was done in the years 1961-1965 by a British archaeologist James Mellaart. Unfortunately back the technology for preserving the site wasn't advanced enough and so the dig had to be delayed.Then in 1993, a new international team led by professor Ian Hodder opened up the site again, surveying the surface. Later in 1995, they began digging again this time covering it inside a futuristic looking structure. Today the digs are still continuing.
Now this dig is actually very important. This neolithic city is not only 9,000 years old but it was also one of the biggest if its time, covering an area of fifty soccer fields and being home to 10,000 people. It was also one of the first big settlements as many people still lived in hunter-gatherer bands back then. Thanks to all of that it can tell us, and already has told us, very much about the daily lives of early settlers. Hints of what daily lives looked like can be found in many objects such as daggers, pottery, clay balls, obsidian, flint, worked, bone, figurines and much more.
Now this dig is actually very important. This neolithic city is not only 9,000 years old but it was also one of the biggest if its time, covering an area of fifty soccer fields and being home to 10,000 people. It was also one of the first big settlements as many people still lived in hunter-gatherer bands back then. Thanks to all of that it can tell us, and already has told us, very much about the daily lives of early settlers. Hints of what daily lives looked like can be found in many objects such as daggers, pottery, clay balls, obsidian, flint, worked, bone, figurines and much more.
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