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Çatalhöyük excavations reveal an 8,500-year-old skull showing signs of trepanation, unveiling ancient medical practices and radical brain surgery.
By Ilya U. Topper Konya, Turkey, Feb 5 (EFE).- The Konya Plain of central Anatolia is plagued by sinkholes, a geological phenomenon that has residents and local farmers fearful of the ground beneath their feet. Almost perfectly round and with deep, vertical walls, the sinkholes spring up suddenly, devouring the earth on this fertile plateau …
Smuggled out of Japan, he became the US' first permanent Japanese resident and helped birth California's wine industry.
Images show the vast holes in a field at Konya Valley. Sinkholes are depressions in the ground with no natural external surface drainage.
Cattle were hugely important in the ancient city of Çatalhöyük in modern-day Turkey. But, the use of cattle changed significantly over the 9,000-year history of the settlement.