PHOTOS FROM TURKEY DAY SEVEN (part 2)

After lunch at a wonderful restaurant we were on our way to the Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk where humans first congregated in villages. We were given a private tour of this neolithic Anatolian site, excavated by an international team, by Dr. Ian Hodder of Stanford University, who leads the excavation project. This was a very interesting stop for us. I had seen excavation sights on television and in the movies but never dreamed of actually being at one myself. The sight was completely covered from the elements with a large tent. This was the sight of an entire village where the houses touched one another leaving no room for walking between them. In fact, the people walked on top the houses and entered them from the rooftops. We were told that the houses were left standing for about 50-70 years, then were torn down and another one was built on top of that. So far they have found evidence of 17 layers of houses.

Larry Hewett