![]() ![]() The initial excavation was interrupted in 1965, and answers to the riddles of this Neolithic site remained unresolved until Ian Hodder initiated a new campaign of research in the 1990s. The archaeological finds included the remains of textiles, plants, and animals, and some female terra-cotta figures that suggested the existence of a "mother goddess" cult. Çatalhöyük, in central Turkey, became internationally famous in the 1960s when an ancient town-thought to be the oldest in the world-was discovered there together with wonderful wall paintings and animals, including leopards, sculpted in high relief. A firsthand account of the discoveries at this seminal ancient site in Turkey, one of the first farming settlements in history. ![]()
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