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James Mellaart

British archaeologist

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excavation at Çatalhüyük

  • Çatalhüyük
    In Çatalhüyük

    …(1961–65) by the British archaeologist James Mellaart have shown that Anatolia in Neolithic times was the centre of an advanced culture. The earliest building period at Çatalhüyük is tentatively dated to about 6700 bce and the latest to about 5650 bce. The inhabitants lived in rectangular mud-brick houses probably entered…

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    In Anatolian religion: Prehistoric periods

    …four seasons of excavations (1961–65), James Mellaart discovered remains of a Neolithic village of mud-brick houses, many of which could be identified as shrines. They are dated by radiocarbon to about 6500–5800 bc (calculated with a half-life of 5,730 years). Huge figures of goddesses in the posture of giving birth,…

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