The wider world
How Hallan Çemi fits in.
Hallan Çemi is in eastern Anatolia, outside the Taş Tepeler region, but it belongs to the same deep story — the very beginning of settled life in the Neolithic Near East.
Eastern Anatolia · Türkiye
One of the earliest known villages in the region, in the hills of eastern Anatolia — evidence that people were settling into year-round communities even before the age of the great stone enclosures.
Hallan Çemi in context
Hallan Çemi, in the hills of eastern Anatolia, is among the oldest known sedentary settlements in the region, dating to around 10,000 BCE. Excavations found round houses, evidence of feasting, and worked stone — but no domesticated crops. Its people were hunter-gatherers who had begun to stay in one place.
Like the Taş Tepeler sites, Hallan Çemi captures a crucial moment: people living together, and feasting together, before agriculture. It is part of the same long transition that the great enclosures belong to — the slow move from mobile foraging toward the settled Neolithic world.
The wider world
Hallan Çemi is in eastern Anatolia, outside the Taş Tepeler region, but it belongs to the same deep story — the very beginning of settled life in the Neolithic Near East.
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