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Day: December 23, 2023

A trepanned skull discovered in Çatalhöyük 8,500 years ago

Archaeologists found an 8500-year-old trepanned skull at Çatalhöyük

A skull found in the 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Konya showed traces of trepanation (skull drilling). Çatalhöyük is a mound near Küçükköy in the Çumra district of Konya, which has been inhabited since 7000 BC. Çatalhöyük consists of two mound areas. The eastern mound was inhabited during the Neolithic Age and the western