Woman of Substance by Piers Dudgeon

Author:Piers Dudgeon [Dudgeon, Piers]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Literary, Literary Criticism, American, Biography & Autobiography, Women authors
ISBN: 9780007165698
Publisher: HARPER COLLINS 1 PAP
Published: 2006-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

At its height, the city of Catal Huyuk may have had 10,000 people. One layer followed another, as one generation built atop another, with individual houses seldom lasting more than 120 years. There is no evidence that the city was ever conquered or damaged by hostile people. Eventually the inhabitants simply moved elsewhere, and this section of Anatolia reverted to wilderness. Nevertheless, Catal Huyuk was one of the first great cities of the world, a center of trading, art and religion, and its place in history is secure. Its people's use of identification stamps or seals presaged the wider use of similar seals by the later Sumerians, suggesting a continuity of culture. Thus we may owe a great deal to this truly ancient city.

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