Çatalhöyük

Çatalhöyük Also Çatalhöyük, Çatal Höyük, Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without diacritics; çatal is Turkish for "fork", höyük for "mound". was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5700 BC. It is the largest and most well preserved Neolithic site found to date.  The site is in Turkey.  The population was about 6,000 and the food they ate was mainly wheat, barley and rice. Catal Huyuk had no roads, so dwellings were accessed via hatches or trap doors in the roofs of the buildings, which were in turn entered via ladders. No trace of a central government has ever been found at Çatalhöyük.
In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  Çatalhöyük added to UNESCO World Heritage List Global Heritage Fund blog article

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Category:Archaeological sites in Asia
Category:World Heritage Sites in Turkey

Category:Ancient settlements