The excavations here have yielded the seeds of the Neolithic Revolution, when prehistoric humans first abandoned the hunter-gatherer life they had known for millions of years, invented farming, and began living in houses and communities. Some archaeologists have claimed that the Mother Goddess was first worshipped at Çatalhöyük, which is now a site of pilgrimage for Goddess worshippers from all over the world. Here lie the origins of modern society - the dawn of art, architecture, religion, family - even the first tangible evidence of human self-awareness, the world's oldest mirrors. The Goddess and the Bull details the dramatic quest by archaeologists to unearth the buried secrets of human cultural evolution at this huge, spectacularly well-preserved 9,500-year-old village in Turkey.
He divides his time between Paris and New York City, where from 2010 to 2015 he taught science, health and environmental journalism at New York University.Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt and the Trojan War was fought, a great civilization arose on the Anatolian plains. He is the author of The Goddess and the Bull, about the excavations at Neolithic Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the origins of civilization.īalter currently contributes to Scientific American, Audubon, The Verge, and other publications. From 1993-2002 he was Paris bureau chief for Science, and then worked for the magazine as a Contributing Correspondent, focusing on archaeology and human evolution, until 2016. In 1988, Balter moved to Paris, where he wrote for the International Herald Tribune, Islands, Travel & Leisure, Bon Appétit, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among many others. During the early 1980s, he worked on the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit against L.A.’s police department for spying on peaceful political groups. He was also an oral historian at UCLA’s Oral History Program. Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and Los Angeles magazine, among others. As a journalist he worked first at Pacifica’s Los Angeles station, KPFK, and then as a freelance writer for the L.A. Instructor Michael Balter was born in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and grew up in Los Angeles. Tickets are $124 for this intensive 4-hour session. How to get good quotes and good information. The proper relationship between a reporter and an interview subject, avoiding too much familiarity, understanding who your interview subjects are and their motivations for talking to you. How to ask “stupid” questions and how to ask smart ones. We will discuss how to make fast “cold” calls, how many sources and interviews are enough for the kind of story you are writing, how to know when you know enough (or whether you know what you think you know.) Asking the right questions, listening to the answers, asking follow-ups, getting the facts right. Great journalism requires great interviewing skills.
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