Clark Larsen and collaborators Christopher Knusel (University of Bordeaux), Scott Haddow (Stanford University), Marin Pilloud (University of Nevada, Reno), Mehmet Somel (Middle Eastern Technical University), and Jessica Pearson (University of Liverpool) have been awarded a research grant from the National Geographic Society for their project, “Coming Together: Neolithic Village Life at Catalhoyuk, Turkey.” During the habitation of the site (ca 9000-7000 year ago), the community subsisted on a range of wild and domesticated foods, with the latter dominated by wheat, barley, rye, and sheep and goats.  The study of the human remains will  provide a multi-scale record of households, neighborhoods, and regions of the community via the analysis of biological relatedness (biodistance), dietary variation and nutritional inference (stable isotopes), and health (growth and development, physiological stress). The unique biocultural and social focus of the research, rich archaeological context, and large, representative skeletal series provides a means for assessing the role of society in structuring of health and life conditions in a highly dynamic period of human history when Homo sapiens first began farming.