September 11 — Stress System in the Ancient World: Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Ancient cities, as we find them today, are not impressive sights. All that remains of Çatalhöyük (Chat-al Hoo-yook), one of the world’s first city, is a gullied, pitted mound, floating in a rolling plain of wheat fields. Little is left to show that this place was a primary source of Western civilization, a nexus of trade and ideas for two thousand years, the first organized cosmopolitan city-state, and arguably the source of the Great Mother Goddess religion—the universal faith of Europe, the Near East, and the Far East before the great empires of the Fertile Crescent arose. Hear what it can tell us about life and death today.
When: Thursday September 11, 6:45 PM
Where: IUPUI Campus Center, 4th floor- Multipurpose Room, 420 University Blvd. Indianapolis
Presented by The IUPUI Anthropology Club and the Anthropology Department in the IU School of Liberal Arts
Dr. Clark Spenser Larsen, Chair of the Anthropology Department at The Ohio State University, is an internationally known authority on bioarchaeology, the study of human remains from archaeological settings. His research is primarily focused on biocultural adaptation in the last 10,000 years of human evolution, with particular emphasis on the history of health and the intersection between biology and culture. His long-term research in the American Southeast has been called “…the most comprehensive data for all of North America” (in Population History of North America). With Richard Steckel, Paul Sciulli, and Phillip Walker, Larsen is the co-director of the Global History of Health Project, an international collaboration involved in the study of ancient skeletons from all continents in order to track health changes since the late Paleolithic. He co-directs (with Simon Hillson) the excavation and study of Neolithic human remains from Çatalhöyük, Turkey, one of the earliest cities in the world.
Why does Provocate think you should attend this event?
Bioarchaeology … cool!
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Know before you go:
Çatalhöyük has its own webpage: www.catalhoyuk.com
And for your listening pleasure …
