{"id":54772,"date":"2024-05-20T16:18:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T16:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/one-of-the-worlds-earliest-farming-villages-housed-surprisingly-few-people\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T16:18:55","slug":"one-of-the-worlds-earliest-farming-villages-housed-surprisingly-few-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/one-of-the-worlds-earliest-farming-villages-housed-surprisingly-few-people\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the world\u2019s earliest farming villages housed surprisingly few people"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A farming-fueled baby boom long thought to have sparked the rise of ancient cities in southwest Asia turns out to have been a bust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a massive site in southern Turkey called \u00c7atalh\u00f6y\u00fck, large numbers of multi-roomed, mud-brick structures cluster in several parts of a settlement that covers an area equivalent to nearly 26 U.S. football fields. Since its discovery in the 1960s, population estimates for the ancient settlement have ranged from 2,800 to 10,000.<\/p>\n\n\n