Early Urbanism

The Earliest Neolithic Street and an 8,500-Year-Old Obsidian Mirror Discovered at Canhasan in Central Turkey

A gentle morning light still hung over the plains of Karaman when archaeologists realized they were standing on something unusual—a narrow, compacted passageway running between…

Bronze Age ‘Mega-Settlement’ on the Kazakh Steppe Challenges Old Narratives of Early Urbanism

A sweeping archaeological survey on the northern Kazakh Steppe has revealed one of the most extensive Bronze Age settlements ever documented in Central Asia —…