| Ancient settlement of the day 09:39 - Jun 30 with 766 views | GeoffSentence |
Çatalhöyük in Anatolia, Turkey.
Where archeologists have unearthed a society with no evidence of public buildings, authority figures, priests nor weapons. Just a community where people lived socially and seemed to just get along, and did so in clean and comfortable surroundings.
Much like today's Ipswich-Shotley-Sudbury Golden Triangle. |  |
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| Ancient settlement of the day on 10:55 - Jun 30 with 703 views | Guthrum |
Altho there are other, roughly contemporaneous sites like Gobekli Tepe (about 200 miles from Catalhoyuk), which is a major ritual site, including a large number of carved standing stones, with apparently little sign of living accomodation. Did people gather from a wide area for ceremonies at particular locations, as with (the much later) Stonehenge? |  |
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| Ancient settlement of the day on 11:17 - Jun 30 with 682 views | WeWereZombies |
Studied Çatal Hüyük a bit on an OU ancient architecture course where the case was made for it being the first city, predating Ur and Jericho. Never got there but when I was in Cappadocia for the 2005 solar eclipse we got along to Kaymakli, a vast underground ruined city. Well worth a visit if your bucket list includes Göreme:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymakli_Underground_City
You could make a case that life deteriorated a lot between Çatal Hüyük and Kaymakli as the main reason for building the city underground seems to have been defence. |  |
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