New Paintings Discovered at Çatalhöyük in 2011

Featured in the NYTimes: Into the Stone Age With a Scalpel

Wall Painting in Building 80

In Building 80, on the lower register of the central east wall, we discovered multiple layers of plaster on which the same design had repeatedly been painted.

 

The design is enigmatic. Does it show bricks and is this an image of walls and pathways in the Neolithic town, or is it just a geometric design?

 

Handprints in Building 77

In Building 77, we discovered a row of handprints across the north wall, leading towards the northwest platform.

 

This platform contained many burials and had been marked by two pedestals set with wild bull horns.