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19-JUN-2011

Ankara june 2011 7040.jpg

A big room from Catalhöyük, reconstructed with original finds in their relative positions. Early sixth millennium BC.

Çatalhöyük (çatal is Turkish for "fork", höyük for "artificial mound, result of long-term human settlement") was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in the Konya plain (southern Anatolia), which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. It is in the world the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date.

The houses were crammed together in an agglutinative manner, clustered in a honeycomb-like maze, without footpaths or streets. Most were accessed by holes in the ceiling, which were reached by ladders.
The mud-brick houses had plaster interiors; all rooms were kept scrupulously clean, and archaeologists identified very little rubbish in the buildings.
The people of Çatalhöyük buried their dead within the houses: human remains have been found in burial pits beneath the floors and, especially, beneath hearths, the platforms within the main rooms, and under beds.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.
Source: (among others) ‘Anadolu Uygarlıkları’ (Anatolian Civilisations) – Prof.Dr. Ekrem Akurgal.

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