 Their present thoughts are past echoes, today is yesterday's tomorrow and the model of societal living began in Mesopotamia, wait to hear this. The Konya plain stretches for hundreds of miles across central Turkey and almost 60 years ago in a remote spot some 30 miles from the regional capital of Konya, a team of archaeologists began exploring two small hills. A fork in a local footpath and two mounds themselves gave the name to the site. Falk, Çatal and Turkish and Mound, Ho'yuk compounds to form Çatal Ho'yuk, Falk Mound. Our emergence back into the world scorched by cataclysm would see Egypt and Mesopotamia rise to great heights in the game of empires. People forced into shelter were the ones who re-emerged and places like Derinkuyu are clearly showing an effort to bunker up large swathes of people and this only happens when there is hostility happening outside in the open. Hundreds of thousands of people lived in these underground cities across this region, the same region the re-emergence occurs and this is an unmistakable pattern of survival. The discovery of these people is the subject of a major archaeological investigation, one which is in full swing in Turkey. Another is the ancient Çatal Ho'yuk site and it's one of the first urbanization models in Mesopotamia's history, it is on UNESCO's World Heritage List and it is one of the clearest windows into the 9000 year old Anatolian lifestyle. The site was discovered in 1958 with the first excavation starting in 1961 and that the site was dated to the Neolithic period over 9000 years ago, archaeologist Newman Arslan from the Çatal Ho'yuk excavation project team says that Çatal Ho'yuk has offered very intriguing data to the world of archaeology, the art, symbolism, the complex societal structure, these kinds of settlements were known to exist in the Near East but not in central Anatolia. Arslan then stated that he believes that the transition from hunting and gardening to the first urban model occurred in Çatal Ho'yuk. We now live in metro policies and we have to follow the urban culture given by those crowded metro policies but the people of Çatal Ho'yuk first tried out the urban city culture here 9000 years ago. The archaeological team noted their societal system saying there was a completely egalitarian societal structure, there was no public spaces, no common meeting areas, there was lots of houses and this shows the importance of working together and supporting each other. Çatal Ho'yuk is a very rare example of a well preserved Neolithic settlement and has been considered one of the key sites for understanding human prehistory for some decades. The site is exceptional for its substantial size and great longevity of the settlement. Its distinctive layout of back to back houses with roof accesses, the presence of large assemblage of features including wall paintings and reliefs representing the symbolic world of the inhabitants. It's here the re-emergence from the cave systems back into societal culture occurred. It's here we find the Venus which assimilates god-like perceptions to the modern times. What do you guys think about Çatal Ho'yuk? One of the first cities to host the re-emergence of our kind, comments below. Thank you for watching.