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Karahantepe Diet Revealed: Gazelle Meat and Legumes Shaped Early Neolithic Life
A quiet detail is beginning to reshape how we understand the earliest settled communities. At Karahantepe, one of the key sites of the Taş Tepeler project in southeastern Türkiye, new research suggests that daily life was built around a surprisingly focused diet: gazelle meat and legumes. The finding may sound simple. It is not. It…
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Daily Life Unearthed at Karahantepe: Over 30 Neolithic Dwellings Reveal the Human Side of an 11,000-Year-Old Settlement
Archaeologists excavating the Neolithic site of Karahantepe in southeastern Türkiye have uncovered more than 30 small, subterranean dwellings dating back around 11,000 years. The discovery provides the clearest glimpse yet into how early Anatolian communities lived, worked, and organized their daily routines — long before the rise of cities or agriculture as we know them.…