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

Strong maternal lines recovered from ancient DNA samples at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, along with archaeological evidence of female-centered practice, points to a socio-cultural practice of mat ...

Abstract. The high-profile Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey--made famous by James Mellaart in the 1960s--has become an increasingly contested space in recent years, its meanings being ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early agricultural societies.

Furthermore, excavations of sites in Turkey, Greece, and Southeastern Europe that were roughly contemporaneous with the Çatalhöyük settlement have yielded evidence—fortifications, maces ...

Çatalhöyük, a warren of mudbrick homes and goddess-like statues dating back to 9000 BCE, has long been a source of mystery and wonder. But the DNA analysis turned those legends into hard ...

Nine thousand years ago on the plains of central Turkey, a group of Neolithic people settled at the edge of a river. The town they built there--now known as Çatalhöyük ("chah-tahl-HU-yook ...

That means we haven't discovered a goddess-worshipping society at Çatalhöyük, but instead a group of people who honored female elders in art, as well as in their everyday practices.

An 8,000-year-old statuette of what could be a fertility goddess has been unearthed at a Neolithic site in Turkey, according to archaeologists. The figurine, discovered at Çatalhöyük in central ...