What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic settlement in central Anatolia? And what role did women hold in their society?

DNA from Stone Age burials in ancient Anatolia reveals the earliest known female-centered society in a farming community.

A new study suggests that a 9,000-year-old society in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city in southern Anatolia, may have established a ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent across Anatolia and ...

Criterion (iii): Çatalhöyük provides a unique testimony to a moment of the Neolithic, in which the first agrarian settlements were established in central Anatolia and developed over centuries from ...

Genetic studies point to female-centered living arrangements in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Yet, power may not have rested solely ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent across Anatolia and ...

Researchers said their findings suggest husbands relocated to the wife's household upon marriage – suggesting a female ...

Neolithic farming halls older than Stonehenge discovered beneath school Archaeologists say the discovery of what they believe is the largest hall found in Scotland is ‘exceptional’ ...

Model that reconstructs how Çatalhöyük could have been. Credit: Wolfgang Sauber / Wikimedia Commons A Contrast with Neolithic Europe These findings strongly contrast with the patterns observed in ...