Çatalhöyük — The First City

Imagine a city of thousands with no streets, no market square, no palace, and no front doors. Every home was entered through a hole in the roof, by ladder, and the rooftops were the roads. This was Çatalhöyük, a settlement on the plains of central Turkey built nine thousand years ago — often called the first city in the world, though it had no kings, no walls, no temples and no writing. For nearly two thousand years, generation after generation climbed down the same ladders, lived in the same rooms, and buried their dead beneath the same floors. We trace the city without streets from its discovery by James Mellaart to the revolutionary excavations of Ian Hodder, walk its honeycomb of mudbrick houses, and meet its people: farmers of emmer wheat and barley, knappers of obsidian mirrors, weavers, herders and ancestors who never really left. We explore the bull-horn shrines, the vulture paintings, the 2,500 clay figurines, and the famous Seated Woman — and we ask what the first city was really like, in a society with no rulers at all. The echoes of a forgotten world, told with real images and the latest scholarship. Timecodes 0:03 — The City Without Streets 0:58 — Discovery, the Fork Mound 1:58 — Between Volcano and Plain 2:50 — The Honeycomb City 3:52 — Farmers of the Plain 4:50 — The House of the Dead 5:39 — Bulls, Vultures, and the Seated Woman 6:38 — Equality Before Kings 7:35 — The End of the First City 8:27 — The Echo Sources 1. Çatalhöyük — Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Çatalhöyük 2. Çatalhöyük — Encyclopaedia Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/place/Catalhoyuk 3. Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük — UNESCO World Heritage Centre — https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1405/ 4. Çatalhöyük Research Project — https://www.catalhoyuk.com/ 5. Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük — Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seated_Woman... 6. James Mellaart — Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mellaart 7. Ian Hodder — Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Hodder