In November 2023 we we visited Çatalhöyük as part of the Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge project.
We were not there for long, but as you can imagine, we were left with a lasting impression. Here we present an introduction to and an overview of the site - coupled with our own personal observations and reflections.
We hope you find it valuable and enlightening. For too long, it has lived in the shadow of the other Turkish mega-site some 500 miles to the east!
00:00 - What is Çatalhöyük?
04:52 - What were the houses like inside?
10:01 - Do we know what the societal structure was like at Çatalhöyük?
15:55 - What was their relationship to death?
21:28 - How many people lived there and how did they subsist?
26:18 - What about the material culture?
30:00 - What did you takeaway from visiting Çatalhöyük?
32:42 - What would you like them to find at Çatalhöyük?