Listen to part of a lecture in an archeology class.

OK,we've been talking about early agriculture in the near east.

So let's concentrate on one site and see what we can learn from it.

Let's look at Catalhoyuk.

Ah' I'd better write that down.

Catalhoyuk,that's about as close as we get in English.

It's Turkish,really.

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

Anyway,uh' Catalhoyuk wasn't the first agricultural settlement in the near east,but it was pretty early,settled about 9000 years ago in the Neolithic period.

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