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  2. Çatalhöyük - Wikipedia

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    Çatalhöyük overlooks the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day city of Konya (ancient Iconium) in Turkey, approximately 140 km (87 mi) from the twin-coned volcano of Mount Hasan. The eastern settlement forms a mound that would have risen about 20 m (66 ft) above the plain at the time of the latest Neolithic occupation.

  3. Neolithic architecture - Wikipedia

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    Early Neolithic water wells from the Linear Pottery culture have been found in central Germany near Leipzig. These structures are built in timber with complicated woodworking joints at the edges and are dated between 5,200 and 5,100 BC. [3] The world's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track in England, also dates from this time.

  4. Nevalı Çori - Wikipedia

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    Fragment of Neolithic art from Nevalı Çori depicting a hunting scene. The local limestone was carved into numerous statues and smaller sculptures, including a more than life-sized bare human head with a snake or sikha-like tuft. There is also a statue of a bird. Some of the pillars also bore reliefs, including ones of human hands. The free ...

  5. Neolithic - Wikipedia

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    Reconstruction of a Neolithic farmstead, Irish National Heritage Park.The Neolithic saw the invention of agriculture.. The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος néos 'new' and λίθος líthos 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia, Mesopotamia and Africa (c. 10,000 BC to c. 2,000 BC).

  6. Proto-city - Wikipedia

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    The label of a proto-city is applied to Neolithic mega-sites that are large and population-dense for their time but lack most other characteristics that are found in later urban settlements such as those of the Mesopotamian city-states in the 4th Millennium B.C. [3] These later urban sites are commonly distinguished by a dense, stratified population alongside a level of organisation that ...

  7. List of Neolithic settlements - Wikipedia

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    Name Location Culture Period Comment Ref Tell Abu Hureyra: Mesopotamia: Natufian culture: c. 11,000 BCE – 7,500 BCE [1]Tell Qaramel: Syria, Levant: Pre-Pottery ...

  8. Art of Uruk - Wikipedia

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    Sumerian dignitary, Uruk, circa 3300-3000 BCE. National Museum of Iraq. [3] [4] Fragment of a Bull Figurine from Uruk, c. 3000 BCEVotive sculptures in the form of small animal figurines have been found at Uruk, using a style mixing naturalistic and abstract elements in order to capture the spiritual essence of the animal, rather than depicting an entirely anatomically accurate figure.

  9. Old Europe (archaeology) - Wikipedia

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    There are also many differences, with some Neolithic communities in southeastern Europe living in heavily fortified settlements of 3,000–4,000 people (e.g., Sesklo in Greece) whereas Neolithic groups in Britain were usually small (possibly 50–100 people). [7] Cucuteni-Trypillia figurine, Romania, 4050–3900 BC