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NarratorListen to part of a lecture in an archeology class.

ProfessorOK, weve been talking about early agriculture in the near east. So lets concentrate on one site and see what we can learn from it.

Lets look at Catalhoyuk. AhId better write that down. Catalhoyuk, thats about as close as we get in English. Its Turkish, really.

The sites in modern day Turkey, and who knows what the original inhabitants called it.

Anyway, uhCatalhoyuk wasnt the first agricultural settlement in the near east, but it was pretty early, settled about 9000 years ago in the Neolithic period.

And ... umm... the settlement...ah...town really, lasted about a thousand years and grew to a size of about eight or ten thousand people.

That certainly makes it one of the largest towns in the world at that time.

One of the things that make the settlement of this size impressive is the time period. Its the Neolithic, remember, the late Stone Age.

So the people that lived there had only stone tools, no metals.

So everything they accomplished, like building this town, they did with just stone, plus wood, bricks, that sort of thing.

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