![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Balter, the excavation’s official "biographer," brings readers behind the scenes, providing the first inside look at the remarkable site and its history of scandal and thrilling scientific discovery. The excavations here have unearthed the seeds of the Neolithic Revolution, when prehistoric humans first abandoned the hunter-gatherer life they had known for millions of years, invented farming, and began living in houses and communities. ![]() Some archaeologists have claimed that a Mother Goddess was first worshipped at Çatalhöyük, which is now a site of pilgrimage for Goddess worshippers from all over the world. Here lie the origins of modern societythe dawn of art, architecture, religion, the nuclear familyeven the first tangible evidence of human self-awareness, the world’s oldest mirrors. The Goddess and the Bull details the dramatic quest by archaeologists to unearth the buried secrets of this huge, spectacularly well-preserved early farming settlement. ![]() Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt, a great civilization arose on the Anatolian plains. In The Goddess and the Bull, veteran Science magazine reporter Michael Balter takes you inside the trenches of one of the world's most important archaeological excavations and the biggest prehistoric village ever discovered: 9,500 year old Çatalhöyük, in south-central Turkey. ![]()
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