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...remnants of food that the ancient people ate, pieces from clothes they wore. By putting the pieces together, Mellaart reports in the latest journal of the British Institute of Archaeology, at Ankara, what he has learned about how people worked and played and worshiped at Çatal Hiiytik 80 centuries...
...city must have looked like an Indian pueblo of the U.S. Southwest, its mud-brick buildings huddled together in a single mass. They had the same doorless outside walls, and were entered by ladders through their flat roofs. There were no streets, and only a few small courtyards. Çatal Hiiyuk may have been well-designed for defense, but its comfort was questionable and its sanitation offensive...
Great Mother with Navel. Life in Çatal Hiiyiik centered around religious ceremonials. The largest rooms in the city were windowless shrines furnished with a wide assortment of idols and symbols. The center of attraction was usually a chunky goddess modeled of clay in a spread-legged attitude that Dr. Mellaart calls the "giving birth" position. She is, he thinks, an early representative of the Great Mother cult that dominated the Mediterranean world for many thousand years...
Other goddesses are slimmer, and some have prominent navels. One is spraddled against the wall with her navel painted in concentric circles like a target-a treatment that Dr. Mellaart thinks shows concern with the continuity of life. Male gods are not common in the Çatal Hiiyuk pantheon, and those that have survived are generally shown riding on a small creature that Dr. Mellaart says is a bull...
...five were dropped. The death sentences could be reversed by General Gursel's junta, and there was considerable pressure for reversal. The U.S. and British embassies told the Turkish Foreign Affairs Ministry that they feared serious repercussions if the death sentences were carried out; Indian Ambassador J. K. Atal called on ex-President Inonu, leader of the Republican Party, asking him to intervene and throw his considerable weight behind a bid for clemency. Inonu refused to interfere. As for the junta, a spokesman had stated before the verdict: "We aren't concerned about foreign opinion." But Gursel obviously...