…were down here in Palestine and Syria. Now however, a series of dramatic and wonderful discoveries by a man named James Millard has shown the most advanced stages here in southern turkey on the anatolian plain, most dramatically in two important sites,…

…k, shaftal kuyuk. Two mounds in the southern anatolian plain were excavated only about seven or eight years ago by this man, Millard. There were suddenly found ceramic ware 2 000 years earlier than had ever been found before anywhere else. Not only that…

…Turkey, Anatolia as it's called, a little town called çatalhöyük. It was a very important series of excavations here conducted by James Millard. With this the antiquity of planning cultures in the near east was lowered down to about 10 000 BC. Here is…