Overcrowding. Many skulls bore evidence of healed fractures to the top or back of the cranium, some with multiple injuries. TODAY’S WORDS今日單字 1. overcrowding n. 過度擁擠 (guo4 du4 yong2 ji3) 2. settlement n. 聚落 (ju4 luo4) 3. nomadic adj. Catalhoyuk, measuring about 13 hectares, was continuously occupied for 1,150 years and appears to have been a largely egalitarian community. It was eventually abandoned, perhaps because of environmental degradation caused by the human population and a drying climate that made farming there harder, the researchers said.

Source: Taipei Times July 06, 2019 16:07 UTC