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We dig deeper so you don’t have to. It’s over fourteen years since we produced our epic film ’Standing with Stones’, but in the last couple of years we’ve been expanding the range of our output to include podcasts, short films and live shows. We’ve also been expanding our reach into the academic archaeological community. This means we can bring you the very latest research into and thinking about our ancient past, in an entertaining and varied way.
Eye-opening study suggests Çatalhöyük population levels over-estimated
The Prehistory Guys
40 minutes
1 year ago
Eye-opening study suggests Çatalhöyük population levels over-estimated
A new study out of Notre Dame University, Indiana has suggested that accepted estimations for population levels at Çatahöyük and other Neolithic villages in Anatolia may be grossly inflated.
In the past We have been told that Çatalhoyuk could have had up to 10,000 inhabitants at any one time - now this paper says maybe not so much. In fact, maybe less than 1,000 people lived there.
This is a pretty big deal and hopefully, we’ll be able to help explain why in the next forty minutes!
'How many people lived in the world’s earliest villages? Reconsidering community size and population pressure at Neolithic Çatalhöyük' available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278416524000047
The Prehistory Guys
We dig deeper so you don’t have to. It’s over fourteen years since we produced our epic film ’Standing with Stones’, but in the last couple of years we’ve been expanding the range of our output to include podcasts, short films and live shows. We’ve also been expanding our reach into the academic archaeological community. This means we can bring you the very latest research into and thinking about our ancient past, in an entertaining and varied way.
