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SEDENTARISM, AGGREGATION, AND AGRICULTURE

IN ANATOLIA, ÇATALHÖYÜK

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU (retired)

University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, dondaine@orange.fr

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I./ THE LANGUAGE OF ANATOLIA AROUND 8–7,000 BCE

II./ “LEAD[ING] TO POPULATION INCREASE.”

III- “THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION” (PAGE 34)

IV- “THE INVENTION OF HISTORY” (Chapter 6)

V- “THE TRANSMISSION OF RIGHTS WITHIN HOUSES” (page 250)

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Preliminary Note

Bill Gates, India’s progress in 5 remarkable charts

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/indias-progress-5-remarkable-charts-bill-gates/

For the readers who may find the number of infantile deaths in this Çatalhöyük community excessive, here are the figures given by Bill Gates in the above-mentioned blog of his for India in the 21st century.

Of course, India today is not comparable with Neolithic communities in Anatolia. But you can imagine what it could be and probably was in the 8th millennium BCE in Anatolia where and when there was no vaccination at all and no modern medicine. They only had herbal medicine and spiritual support.

To further the comparison here are the figures in the USA. India still has some improvement to do.

ABSTRACT

The first question is about the language or languages spoken in Anatolia before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans who will only come and mostly go through two or three millennia later when Çatalhöyük will no…