In this online version of an article in Natural History this month, Ian Hodder describes ongoing investigations at Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic site in central Turkey occupied between 9,400 and 8,000 years ago.

• This Old House: Çatalhöyük
• Archaeology of Turkey
• The Neolithic Revolution
• Photographs from Çatalhöyük, from the Çatalhöyük Flickr site
• Çatalhöyük , the official project website

The photograph is of Building 56, and it is a rectified overhead shot taken with a fisheye lens, taken by for the Çatalhöyük Research Project by Jason Quinlan.