Bull Heads - Catal Huyuk
Anatolia
Modern Turkey
7000BC
Settlement established.
6300BC-5500BC
Catal Huyuk flourished during this period.
Covered more than 12 hectares.
Largest Neolithic site yet discovered.
Excavation revealed shrines.
More than 1000 mud brick houses were discovered implying a
population of 5-6000.
Upper estimates of 10000
Despite its urban character Catal Huyuk is sometimes considered to be no more
than a culturally developed village.
Storage facilities.
Mud brick and timber.
Pottery and weaving.
Metallurgy 1
No market places or roads discovered.
Luxury goods traded for obsidian.
No boundary walls.
Houses were built adjoining one another, creating a barrier to the
outside. All houses were entered from above by ladder.
Its position, north of the Taurus mountains, caused it to become
isolated,
from progress that reinforced urbanisation elsewhere.
Typical living quarters at Catal Huyuk