Çatalhöyük
Sign in to saveÇatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk; , ; ; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion resulting from long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5600 BC and flourished around 7000 BC. Çatalhöyük overlooks the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day city of Konya (ancient Iconium) in Turkey, approximately from the twin-coned volcano of Mount Hasan.
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Çatalhöyük is an ancient mounded settlement in southern Turkey that was one of the largest Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-cities, thriving from around 7500 to 5600 BC. It matters as a major archaeological site that provides insight into one of humanity's earliest large-scale human settlements during the prehistoric period.
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- Çatalhöyük
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- Çatalhöyük, 7400 BC, Konya, Turkey - UNESCO World Heritage Site, 08.jpg
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- 300
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- Ruins of Çatalhöyük
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- Turkey#Near East
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- 300
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- Ancient site.location
- Küçükköy, Konya Province, Turkey
- Ancient site.region
- Anatolia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.built
- c. 7100 BC
- Ancient site.epochs
- Neolithic Early Chalcolithic, Phrygian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman
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Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk; , ; ; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion resulting from long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5600 BC and flourished around 7000 BC. Çatalhöyük overlooks the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day city of Konya (ancient Iconium) in Turkey, approximately from the twin-coned volcano of Mount Hasan.
In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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