Re: grad-hrad

And Happy New Millennium to you too, Sabine.
Thanks for the info. about Mellaart's new business venture. And those
frescoes he discovered at Catal Huyek so long ago yet didn't publish
until recently are certainly a mystery aren't they? I wonder if Ian
Hodder has discovered the same frescoes. If in fact the frescoes can be
documented, then Mellaart must be a REAL business tycoon.

What types of agriculture was conducted at Catal Huyak? And were the
workers prisoners (living in their cells) when they weren't in the
fields or were they simply religious followers of the "chief"? And if
my memory serves me correctly, one of the "cells" was much more
elaborate than the others.

Please tell me more. Have you visited the site?
Gerry

Ivanovas/Milatos wrote:

>
> Hello in the new millenium,
> Gerry asked:
> >Are there archaeological instances when agriculture and the city existed as
> >one?
> I'm not sure I understand you correctly, Gerry, but I believe the
> 'coincidence' of agriculture and 'town-life' (we wouldn't call those 'towns'
> towns nowadays, so let's call it a -large- settlement) you're looking for
> occurred e.g. in Neolithic Anatolia. You'll probably be amazed about the
> beauty of the frescoes and the power of the art from Catal Hoeyuek (now
> western Turkey), where houses were built as glued one to the other (much
> like modern Mediterranean villages), but didn't have doors (they entered
> them from the roofs) and a large percentage of the houses seem to have been
> sacral buildings, depicting bull's horns, mighty vultures and hunting
> scenes, but there is also a wall filled with the imprints of the (a?) human
> hand.
> The excavator who published about it was James Mellaart. It's worth having a
> look at. Cf. also http://goethe.ira.uka.de/catal/ where some of the ultra
> modern excavation methods are supposed to be seen and a CD can be ordered (I
> haven't managed to open that page yet, but as I know the methods from books,
> it's certainly worth while trying!)
> Best wishes
> Sabine
>
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