Hermione Wrote:
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> I can't believe this ... Apparently, even the
> famous exploding volcano mural is now suspect ...

As a geologist, that makes me want to cry. This mural can be seen in:

Çatalhöyük ‘Map’ Mural May Depict Volcanic Eruption
8,900 Years Ago, January 13, 2014 by News Staff
[www.sci-news.com]

The paper is:

Schmitt, A.K., Danišík, M., Aydar, E., Şen, E.,
Ulusoy, I. and Lovera, O.M., 2014. Identifying the
volcanic eruption depicted in a neolithic painting
at Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia, Turkey.
PloS one, 9(1), p.e84711.
[journals.plos.org]

This is going to be messy.

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)