{"product_id":"catalhoyuk-zatalhziyzk-duygu-yesilcimen-9798192890080","title":"Catalhoyuk (Çatalhöyük): The Complete History of the Ancient Neolithic City: Archaeology, Daily Life, Religion, Art, Houses, and the People Who Built","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeaturing photographs that bring the remarkable world of Çatalhöyük to life, this book takes you inside one of the oldest and most fascinating settlements ever discovered.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagine walking into a home built nearly 9,000 years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are no modern streets, no written records, and no familiar city skyline. Instead, there are mudbrick walls, painted surfaces, ancient hearths, storage spaces, tools, food remains, and traces of people who lived their everyday lives thousands of years before the rise of the great civilizations of the ancient world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome to \u003cb\u003eÇatalhöyük\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocated in central Anatolia, Çatalhöyük offers an extraordinary glimpse into a period when human communities were changing the way they lived, worked, ate, built, and interacted with one another. Its dense houses, unusual architecture, burials beneath floors, striking artwork, agricultural evidence, and animal remains have made it one of the most important Neolithic archaeological sites in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this is not simply a book about ancient ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a journey into the lives of the people behind them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will discover how Çatalhöyük developed, what its houses reveal about family and community life, how people obtained and prepared food, why animals were so important, what their remarkable artwork may have meant, and how archaeologists use tiny fragments of evidence to reconstruct a world that left no written history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will also explore the mysteries that remain unanswered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy were people buried beneath houses?\u003cbr\u003eWhat did the paintings on the walls mean?\u003cbr\u003eHow did such a large settlement function without the palaces and monumental institutions associated with later cities?\u003cbr\u003eAnd why did Çatalhöyük eventually change?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in an accessible, humanized style, this book separates archaeological evidence from interpretation so you can understand not only \u003cb\u003ewhat we know about Çatalhöyük, but how we know it\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether you are fascinated by archaeology, ancient history, Neolithic societies, or simply curious about how ordinary people lived nearly 9,000 years ago, \u003cb\u003eÇatalhöyük\u003c\/b\u003e offers an engaging window into a world that is both remarkably distant and surprisingly familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Duygu Yesilcimen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798192890080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Duygu Yesilcimen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50546634162431,"sku":"9798192890080","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/catalhoyuk-zatalhziyzk-duygu-yesilcimen-9798192890080","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}