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Catal Huyuk
Population: 1952 people (including children) <390 families @ 61/acre>
Geographical Area: Town: 32 acres
Grain-fields: 2,535 acres
Grazing land: 65,715 acres
Woodlot: 97,600 acres
Total: 165,882 acres (259.2 square miles)
Description: Earliest known Neolithic community. It is a Commonwealth of families. It is a crowded community. There is considerable industry, it is a regional trading hub situated on the edge of a river. Wooden Artefacts dominate instead of Pottery.
Families live in clusters of roof accessed dwellings surrounding family courtyards. Families farm their own land, tend their own herd animals although these are somewhat malnourished by comparison, and hold their own grain and food.
The dominant livestock is sheep for wool, milk, meat, and leather. There are hens and eggs, yet they must hunt seventy percent of their meat as wild oxen and red deer.
Family requirements 1820lb meat per year (70% wild)=1 oxen (1000lb), 1 deer (220lb).
Fine clothing with beadwork is common. The people are above average in wealth and health. Hunting is a collective venture that takes place in parties that might venture out once a month leaving 600lb of meat to be drawn from domestic herds (8 sheep domestic killed).
There is trade with the Obsidian Scroungers of Kara Dag (a volcanic Obsidian source within fifty miles of the community)
Skills: Craft (Woodworking), Craft (Bead-working), Craft (Obsidian-craft)
Domesticated Sheep: A Family Sheep-herd will only slaughter ¼ of the herd per year so 4x8=32 sheep. Land supporting the family herd=3 acres per sheep=96 acres @ 57%=168.5 acres
32 sheep
Wool: 2&1/2 lb wool x 32=80lb
Milk: 32-4 rams=28 ewes x ¼ gallon=7 gallons per day
Hides: 8/year
Daily Individual Share: 1lb meat & 1.4 gallons of Milk
Barley and Wheat: Family field (6&1/2 acres for growing grain
Barley @ 28 bushels/acre x 57%=15.96 bushels x 6.5 acres= 103.74 bushels
-seed (6.5 bushels)
-religious offerings (1 Bushel at harvest)
96.24 bushels x 50lb=4812 lb grain
7025&1/2 loaves per year
3.8 loaves per person per day
- Religious offering (1 loaf per day)
Daily Individual Share: 2.8 loaves
Fuel: 1952 people x 10,000lb wood=19,520,000lb firewood
8,714 tons of firewood
19,520,000lb/20,000lb=976 acres
976x 100 years regrowth=97,600 acres/640 acres=152.5 square miles
Timber Clearing: 1.52 square miles per year
Trade: The Community produces 31,200lb wool per year. Assuming each individual uses 6lb/year remaining wool= 19,500lb.
This is sufficient to provide 6 lb wool to 3,250 other people and is a naturally occurring surplus residue of other processes necessary to the community.
Exportable Surplus: 19,500lb
Foodstuffs:
Stuffed breads. Un-yeasted flatbreads of Barley and ewes-milk stuffed with meat and or fruits and nuts. Some Yeast breads occurring due to livestock handling.
Alcohols. Fermented grain and fruit.
Pottage. Breaddough Cooking pots with a fill of grain and meat.
Cereal. Some grain soaked in milk
Religious Practices: Ancestor Worship, Annual harvest offerings, Hunting Offerings, Daily bread Offerings.
Tools & Weapons: Flint and Obsidian arrowheads, spears, cutting tools
